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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Where do they get their data?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

    Web trackers

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Am I on Slashdot in 2004?

    No shade. I respect my Linux brethren. I'm on MacOS, but CLI junkies should unite and drink beers. Or smoke trees. Or whatever. The point is that I love you all. But no Windows peeps.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I never liked the CLI, which is probably why I couldn't switch to MacOS after using Linux. My god is MacOS UI "weak" on customization for power users

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    2023 was the year of the Linux desktop.

    1. Got Discord and Zoom off the store
    2. Zoom screen and webcam sharing just worked
    3. Was able to even switch Bluetooth profile through GUI
    4. Essentially any game that didn't use a kernel level spyware works
    5. Chromebook hardware in the $500 range is pretty good
    6. Must software is web based.

    I recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Install once, update weekly or biweekly. (It's a rolling release, so it doesn't have major upgrades like Windows 10 to 11 does.) About a month ago I did an upgrade on my old laptop. Handled 2 years of updates flawlessly.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

    If profit and growth continue to be above all else, I don't see why it wouldn't gain a decent market share in the next couple of decades.

    On the other hand, the Unix model of selling hardware to help pay for software development might breed a more competitive hardware space if there is a big enough user base.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    If you add chrome os which is Linux you even go over 5%

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    I feel this is now being driven by the decline of desktops in general.

    Every now and again I meet someone who somehow gets through life without a desktop.

    I can understand someone who owns a Mac/Windows PC just binning it out of frustration and not buying another one. They are just life-sucking levels of horror at this point.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Tablets cover >90% of the regular person's usecase, anyway, nowadays.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    It's been years since I owned a tablet. I felt that they were redundant because I have a phone and a desktop and a laptop and a Chromebook.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, in that case, it really is. But if you have both a phone and a tablet with a keyboard, any kind of PC might be redundant, if you don't do any specialized task like coding/video/gaming/photography,...

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    fuck even some photographers ik don't even have a damn computer just an ipad

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