This reminds me of Meetup.com dying almost everywhere except Chicago where the HQ is and everyone uses it.
I don’t really know about the uptick, but the general trend upward over a longer period of time I kind of wonder if it’s due to things like the steam deck. I played around with gaming in Linux with wine back in the early 2010s and was woefully unimpressed with how little I could do, especially with the amount of work involved. I didn’t really give it a second look at all, but after the deck released I was blown away by how much has improved, and it’s motivated me to see how much I can get away with without windows. I wonder how many people have had a similar experience.
It’s 3,68% in my country
How accurate are these measurements? I don’t know much about Norway, but if there was some massive roll-out of Linux in the governmental sector or their school system, surely there would be posts about it here?
Edit: I’m just having a hard time believing such high numbers without something like that.
Is that where all the government computers run Ubuntu?
I’m a Norwegian Linux enthusiast and have never heard anything about the government using Ubuntu or Linux. Seems unlikely, from what I know. I know that within healthcare Windows is still widely used, even on the server side…
On the other hand, a lot of software for official services is being developed as open source now, so that’s at least a good step in the right direction. Example: https://github.com/navikt
Norwegian government loves windows, so yea, I really doubt it. (by it, I mean the government using Ubuntu thing)
Source: I used to work for the Norwegian government
edit: added explanation to “it”, so not to be as confusing to what I refered to.
You’re thinking of Switzerland
Ah, thanks! I knew it was somewhere.
I especially appreciate that the graph is designed as “Linux” and “Other” instead of “Windows”, maybe “MacOS” and “Other”.
This is reported as a percentage and that’s what is tripping people up here.
You are not seeing a drastic rise in Linux usage you are seeing a large decrease in the use of desktop computers.
Linux is increasing because the only ones left using desktops are Linux users.
Nice explanation but here is a graph with desktop percentage included (versus mobile plus tablet, but that isn’t shown)
Why do you all want to rule the world? Just let people who like windows enjoy it… Jesus christ.
look at the culture and mindset which Windows™ breeds.
I am wondering, what is enjoyable about Windows/Microsoft?
The slow & buggy UI?
The blue screens due to crappy drivers or bc they fucked something up?
The way they erase any customisability, essentially forcing their users to adapt their vision of how a computer should be operated?
How they are coming up with great ideas such as taking system snapshots and having AI analyze them?
The updates that randomly decide to install and then take an eternity with the end user not being able to use their PC whilst an update is taking place?
The 10.000 different ways of updating software?
How they are blatantly ripping off features whilst marketing them as their own ideas?
The way they are turning it more and more into an advertising platform for their own products?
The $139.00 license fee for everything I just mentioned?
Like, the only enjoyable thing I can think of is software availability but thanks to WINE / Proton this advantage is becoming less and less relevant.
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For a democracy to work it’s people need to act like political consumers. To do so, they need to be informed about the products they consume and their alternatives.
That’s political consumerism, not democracy.
Why spread a good thing to the world? Just let people enjoy their wiretappy thing… jesus christ.
an attempt at an answer:
more linux users = more linux software (and I know this doesn’t mean better linux software)
Or at least attention from the bigger actors e.g., Adobe, Autodesk etc. to make their industry standards available for Linux users
I’d rather Adobe not do that, but to each his own.
More Linux users =>
- more people looking at source code
- more people potentially paying for development of some OSS Linux software
- More developer time for said OSS software => better OSS Linux software
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What’s the source for this image?
I downloaded the data from globalstats statscounter
How do you make the graph? What type of graph is it?
So I can use it for browser marketshare and search engine marketshare.
You can download the .csv data from the website. Then make a stacked area chart in something like Excel/Google Sheets/Libreoffice Calc.
I was confused why they used Swedish flag colors for a Norwegian graph
Well you see. 1905 never happened, and we are all under Sweden still. /s
The welfare of the brother peoples.
Serious question for you all. I too wish to see Linux use increase. I also want to see corporate social media die. I am thinking of requiring my students to create Lemmy accounts for a Lemmy group i create.
Do you think this might move folks away from essy corporate os and social media? How do You see it giving wrong?
I would rather say that help questions can be posted there. That way its not forving anyone to do anything
I like it! Even if the majority of em completely abandon the accounts afterwards, it’ll increase the visibility of a fledgeling platform AND it’ll show a few folks that alternative social media platforms exist.
I mean, shit, if lemmy can suit my needs there’s no reason it shouldn’t work for at least some of em.
I remember a teacher requiring us to use Matrix for a coding class. We still mostly used Discord, and after that class ended, we never used it again.
You and I have a reason we use Lemmy: we don’t want to use Reddit and want the Fediverse to grow. Simply forcing your students to make Lemmy accounts won’t do anything, in fact it might make them hate it (Oke boomer).
“hey there’s this thing called lemmy, check it out some time” <- leading a horse to water
“ok you have to register an account on lemmy, it’s part of your grade” <- shoving a hose down the horse’s throat and cranking the spigot
yes because having assigned reading material directly and specifically relevant to the subject of the class is exactly the same as registering for a website full of shitposts and propaganda bots. remember when you got all that spam from opening your textbook, and there was an entire chapter calling you out for being a little bitch?
that’s the stupidest comparison i’ve ever heard.
Haven’t seen this in the other comments: Coolness factor. If you’re a successfully popular teacher, i.e. “cool”, then your students will likely want to participate in whatever it is you suggest.
However, if they don’t see you as cool, you might have difficulty, and might even put them off the platform. This is not something that can be fixed easily, and trying to be cool is about as uncool as you can get.
(Making it mandatory will work, of course, but how you go about that could determine whether they choose to stay on the platform once you’re done. This was kind of covered by OP talking about Matrix in another comment here.)
Good points. I need to be very thoughtful before i procede. Thank You.
requiring my students to create Lemmy accounts
No. Nobody likes registering accounts for random services because an authority figure told them they had to, I feel like if it were me I would do the bare minimum of interacting that I was required to and never look at the service again out of resentment.
Yes as it will get your students to dip their toes into the fediverse
I like the idea, but a lot of people resent being made to create accounts on random services. We know that Lemmy is good because we’re here, but it might put them off the idea.
Depending on the age of your students, you might have to be careful about the fact that NSFW content is freely available here, and check the terms of your instance to see if they’re allowed to make accounts in the first place e.g. on most social media and forums you have to be 13 or over.
These are college students. I’ll try to make the assignment relevant and fun.
You’re going to start hearing about beans in your classroom
You need to write “I agree on the terms of service, rent agreement and privacy policy of any electric vehicle manufacture” in order for me to elaborate on the topic, please.
On the fat cheque
Worth noting that Norway has a very small population, in fact, short term residencies leaving such as students, refugees (which Norway takes an insane amount of), and seasonal (especially oil) workers could at least explain the trend/fluctuation. Overall high usage is cool though! Norway also had a fuckton of government money going into tech startups so maybe that’s impacting it too.
As a Dane i can say that maybe its because Scandinavians are generally pretty tech savvy and good with digitalisation. Also Scandinavians has a low tolerance for bullshit.
Yup. It’s the reason why Denmark is the most developed country in North America as Canada and the United States worship the aristocrats’ bullshit too much.
Did you seriously just name Denmark a country in North America?!
Denmark shares a land border with Canada on Hans Island also France shares a maritime border with Canada.
You can’t seriously call them “countries in North America” though, that’s just ridiculous.
France is quintessential North America.
/s, /s.
You reset their screensaver settings twice, you don’t get to do it a third time
Also, a lot of Scandinavian libraries are switching their public desktop PCs to Linux.
This sounds valid. I wonder how many Scandinavians switched to Linux because of Windows 11.
Well, I’m one. Fed up with windows BS.
