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And here in Sweden were I live it’s just 1.41% :(

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/sweden

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People are dumb here, they buy apple.

"Hey look at my new iPhone that costs 20000 sek and can’t do anything important better than the last five previous iPhones "

But it’s really fast at idling in people’s pockets.

I admit the MacBook air has a nice cpu, it stays cool. But most people don’t use anywhere near what the cpu is capable of.

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And now imagine here in the US where every single person has an iPhone and everything Apple. They are completely brainwashed.

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16 points

Critical thinking seems to be a thing of the past… Maybe it’s because they feel like we are on the end stretch of society anyway, may as well enjoy the days left.

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2 points

20000 seks hehe

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0 points

Better than using windows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Your Fedora must be huge!

It’s amazing to me in 2024 we still have fanboys saying this shit ad nauseum since 1995.

Linux is a shitty desktop environment unless you like to tinker. Apple and Windows provide a far better experience to those who want shit to just work and be compatible.

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17 points

Odd. What distros have you had such poor experiences with? What sort of things do you use Linux for?

Mint has been tinker-free for me for years as my main desktop. I have had Mac and Windows laptops during that time, as well. But I rarely use them for any of my hobbies.

I use it to actually do stuff so the last thing I want is tinkering getting in the way of that. And it hasn’t for years.

Now, to be fair, gaming is another story since not everything works easily.

Anyway, I doubt Mint is the only distro that doesn’t require much fiddling with.

Things have come a long, long way since the 90s (I was using Mandrake at that time).

For example, the install process for Fedora and Mint are slicker than for Windows if you ask me.

I mean, my kid has been using Linux as her desktop since she was like 10 and she doesn’t seem to have any problems (except ok sure, stupid Nvidia …we went AMD with her new system). Granted she mostly just surfs and plays Minecraft.

I wouldn’t hesitate to set up a non-techie with one of the mainstream, stable distros depending on what they want to use.

I don’t think it is the year of the Linux desktop by any stretch but I do think the numbers will trend slightly up over the next five years as steamdeck-alikes get more popular and more progress is made on compatibility and natively written games, and as Windows enshittification continues.

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10 points

Nothing just works.

I run Linux, not because I think it’s great, but because Windows is awful, and keeps getting worse. Furthermore it keeps abusing its majority market share to get away with increasingly scummy behaviour.

My Linux experience has been a lot more tinker free than Windows. There’s a ton of distros to choose from for the uninvested, my 60 year old mum runs Linux at this point and the only difference is she stopped calling all the time for tech support.

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6 points

Install Linux Mint with the GUI installer a la windows, done.

You are factually wrong unless you specify a distro. But even arch has arch install now.

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18 points

What???

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29 points

Given the size of Estonia, I’ll assume that was the work of one single Linux supersoldier who spent the whole month entering homes at night and installing Linux on whatever computer they could find.

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9 points

It looks a fish giving bass to mouth. See there’s the first fish on the left sucking the other one off on the right

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9 points

U sicko

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5 points

1.19% in Switzerland, so we’re even worse

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I use Arch btw


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