Another interesting observation is that linux marketshare in India has been falling in the last months since the peak above 17% in last September no 8,79% in January. Does anyone know something about what happened in there?
Well it’s not much but 18 days ago i said id switch and it’s been 2 weeks since i did!
It’s all government and schools. You can see the trend for Linux going down and the trend for Unknown going up. It’s pretty much 1:1. Probably just changes in the custom distros they have that Statcounter is not aware of yet. Statcounter will update and things will go back to normal.
Obsessing about this increasingly irrelevant figure is pointless. Most people do not even have desktop computers outside work, and the number is going to keep dropping and dropping. The world has moved to mobile.
As Linux nerds who care about the future of free personal computing, we need to reboot our minds and focus on how to get free software onto mobile devices and into mobile applications.
The FOSS Linux stack is going nowhere on mobile (I have speaking rights here: I once bought an Ubuntu phone). Our last best hope is web apps that use web standards. I say we transfer our obsession to that project instead, rather than worry about this distraction of a statistic.
I run graphene os with most of my apps from fdroid. It doable but it’s an absolute pain in the ass.
Yes, this is the alternative. And it’s a PITA as you say. And might not even be possible in the future, given the trend towards locking down Android and OSs in general.
Yeah we need to fight to ensure its possible going forward. Even now GrapheneOS doesn’t have RCS or google pay cos google won’t give GrapheneOS a certificate as a trusted os (despite googles own international android developer team requesting it as GrapheneOS makes a significant contribution to android security).
I don’t want RCS on my phone. I would rather use an open standard like XMPP or Matrix. But Big G’s behavior in this regard is very toxic and monopolistic. Also, I believe for a truly free mobile experience, we should support linux mobile, rather than android ROMs
You can pry my laptop and PC from my cold, dead hands. I’ve been seeing people lament the death of computers for years and I still see no change. Most of the people I know (not nerds or techy people at all) still have at least one PC or laptop at home.
The people you know are not representative of the world population, and becoming even less so every day.
