Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022)

Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by goodpoint on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:15AM (#34207526)

> people who wouldn't list "computers" among their personal interests were noticeably using it on their desktops

I know a number of "normies" with no interest in computing that use Ubuntu because they trust it more than Microsoft. (Rightfully so)

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by danieldk on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:20AM (#34207590)

Such anecdotal evidence is cherry picked and completely useless. Ask a random person on the street. If they still even have a laptop or desktop, 80-90 percent will run Windows and macOS as a distant second. In some domains (e.g. education) you'll find some Chromebooks, they run Linux, but it's largely irrelevant, because for most users it's just proprietary Chrome (and if they didn't have a ChromeBook, they'd be running Chrome on Windows).

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by mistrial9 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:30AM (#34207680)

without context, spoken language group and some simple demographics, these "percent" declarations are worse than completely useless.. they mislead

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by goodpoint on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:23AM (#34216347)

> Such anecdotal evidence is cherry picked

Citation needed. Desperately.

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by LeFantome on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:44PM (#34210029)

I am wondering what is the cross-section between “no interest in computing” and sufficient knowledge of Microsoft to have an actionable opinion. I am not sure this group is what “normie” is meant to refer to in this thread.

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