"marketshare"
Many distros do not send telemetry by default, so this "metric" must be wildly distorted.
Look, I'm doing my best, ok? Back off!
I got four running already!
I’m sorry for the fluctuation guys. I haven’t had as much time for gaming this past month due to exams and whatnot. I didn’t mean to let you all down.
I forgive you. It's what Tux would want me to do.
Reporting every bit of noise in this statistic is kinda boring?
Meh. I like seeing it. I don't spend a lot of time thinking/worrying about it, but it's a nice data point to keep up with.
As with most "computer geeks" forced to use Teams/M365, I have a strong reason to want more people comfortable switching to open source. The faster we can ditch American property slopware, the better.
To be fair, the spike up in the noise in march was reported widely. Now the "correction" can be as well IMO. But oh well, lets hope there is a tleasr a larger trend to Linux
Fair point, let's hope this is the end of it :P
The Year of Linux is, when China bans Windows.
I've actually been surprised that they haven't already
Happening now actually, according to this
Not exactly what I meant. They ban for the government, similar to what is happening in Europe. It won't have any effect on gamers, as no one is forced to give up Windows (other than the government bodies themselves).
I am pretty sure they banned gaming at work a long time ago.
It's only banned if they find out!
I'm talking about banning Windows for any citizen.
It's funny, because if the Chinese really did something along those lines it would be interpreted (correctly) as authoritarian abuse.
How can a government enforce such ruling? It is not the same as blocking the websites you don't like.
All they really have to do is specify that all new machines sold domestically have to be loaded with their tailored Linux distro and no other OS, and they'd eventually get rid of the majority of Windows machines. Enforcement of that should at least be possible, since they'd only have to check sellers and distributors of new equipment. Then just lean on domestic developers and/or software companies so that they don't provide new versions of must-have applications (whatever those may be) for Windows to encourage the holdouts to move on.
It would never fly in a country without an authoritarian government, but China could likely get away with it. It just wouldn't be instantaneous.
Enforcement is secondary, the first and most important step is making it illegal. And maybe providing an alternative they develop and control themselves, a custom China based Linux as a replacement for Windows. So the first step is making it a reason not to install Windows willing fully. And the enforcement goes as far as they can, nobody said that it can be enforced on everyone.
If anyone is caught talking or using Windows because they don't use VPN and hide their browser identity, then the government could investigate a bit further. Nobody want to be caught in China. Windows has a builtin identification, the browser tells a lot, and Windows tries to connect to the internet for downloads and updates. All of that could be tracked. You would need to be offline in order not get caught, unless you know 100% exactly what you do, maybe then its safe.
I'm not a wizard, I don't know the exact methods. This is just what I know as a normal citizen who does not really do all of this stuff. Imagine what they know.
Why would they make a rural Chinese granny either go out and buy a new computer with preinatalled Linux or go learn how to do it herself, just so that it's legal for her to call her relatives? Sounds a bit shortsighted to me.
It's to protect her and the country from being spied by "Americans".
I am surprised that any nation would adopt a closed source product from abroad when it could build its own, especially given Linux. In a world like this, choosing that path seems genuinely diabolical.
Nations where using Windows for years when Linux came out. And it took at least two decades for Linux to be a viable option for governments, because they are dependent on Windows and didn't have much experience in Linux. But the "turns have tabled", finally. The world woke up.
I cracked my offline games and mostly stopped using steam. :p
It's not even for pirating I don't want to depend on those guys to own my game which I guess is piracy I think, but anyway.
Yeah... I've been playing more games on GOG than Steam lately for the same reason. (Nobara, for the Nvidia support out of the box)
Sorry. My fault. I've been working too much to play games.
It's extremely hard to believe that someone that has had a taste of Linux would switch back to Windows, if this is what the stats imply, which I'm not sure. I would need to be paid thousands to willingly use Windows again.
Sampling variation/statistical noise, probably. I wouldn't read too far into it.
The stats imply there were more chinese users surveyed this month and chinese steam users don't use linux much
I mean the stats very clearly are useless this month for Linux usage as they are all months that have this simplified Chinese spike.
The type of person who watches trashtubers, is the same type of person who was born to use windows.
I wonder what the sampling/reporting issue is? Why Chinese specifically? Are there droves of Chinese gamers flip-flopping between Linux and Windows? That doesn't seem likely.
I think it's that Chinese gamers are much more likely to use Windows and that sampling is random so whenever too many Chinese computers are selected on sampling the Linux share decreases
I even ensured I refused survey data on my Windows machine but that it ran on my Linux machine to help game the numbers as I'm sure other Linux users do.
I'm convinced Microsoft would have to mandate sticking a probe up your ass when creating a user account/setting up a computer before significant switching among average users would take place and even then a huge 50% of the population would say it's not that big a deal and switching is a larger hassle and they have no choice, blah, blah.
Linux is kind of still stuck in the doldrums of tech and privacy enthusiasts and a few of their friends and I'm just not sure what if anything can change that in terms of individual actions and markets. Now sure if China or the EU made it harder to sell Windows computers and really pushed people onto a version of Linux that could bump the numbers but in both cases they're just trying to gain some sovereignty by putting government systems on Linux and that transition alone will probably run for a good part of a decade.
Literally just defaults. The average person does not care what their operating system is, and will just run whatever is already on their computer.
I'm doing my part 🙂
F*ck that's on me. I took a break from gaming to focus on other projects + the occasional GBA SP.
Sorry dudes forgot to fill in my survey
I still don't get why I can't opt in to participate in the survey every month, I've only been asked twice in the last three years on Arch
Because thats not how good stats works. They want random samples to draw actual stats from.
Volunteering ruins the point.
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