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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is someone kind enough to post a screenshot of the stats? I can't access it, because its a known tracking site and get blocked by the plugins.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Okay, I have bit the bullet and made an exception to provide screenshots myself:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Thanks for your service, comrade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Next time try out visiting the page through archive.org

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't think of it, because I always think or archive.org as older pages/versions. The problem is, is it updated to current? It's a big site, so probably it will be. Good idea, I'll check that next time through archive.org.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can always* request a new archive of a website. If you log in (warning: it has to load google code at least when registering) you can also request a screenshot (which I don't know how you find later on, but right after you get a link) and recursive archiving with a depth of 1.
Interactive elements remain interactive nowadays, but it has limitations.

In some cases archive.today is worth a try too. It has workarounds for e.g. facebook, or at least in the past it had a fake account to be able to save facebook content.
But this one loads whatever code from yandex, so if that's problematic for you be sure to block it. uMatrix is best for that task, probably uBO can do it too, the Firefox version I mean.

These sites are basically my "remote browser", and often it'll be even useful for others that I requested an archive. Quite often I'm requesting the first one.

* mostly, but you can't if the site was very recently archived, like in 30 minutes. Then there are some sites that are blacklisted for some reason but not much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what happened to OS X

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It does not mean that something happened with MacOS / OS X. If it stays the same and everyone else gets bigger, then the same gets smaller relatively speaking. Look at the dip for OS X in Nov 2023. Looks like almost the same amount of up for Windows. Also Chrome OS went a bit down and Unknown went up, only Linux stays the same.

So either something in their software changed or it was really a phase of people buying new computers and changing their OS. For a fact, I also build my PC in Nov 2023 (but stayed on Linux). Maybe that was a time of new hardware or lower prices, don't remember exactly.