Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022)

Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by ghaff on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:45AM (#34207882)

It also came from an era when utter Microsoft dominance seemed like an existential threat to many people--and the native desktop (and its applications) was an important front in that war. So winning over a material number of governments and companies to Linux, OpenOffice, etc. on PCs seemed an important objective.

Today, what operating system people choose to run on their desktop/laptop just isn't a terribly important question any longer in the scheme of things especially given that most live largely in their browser anyway.

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by ofrzeta on Sunday January 01, 2023 @01:33PM (#34209184)

> given that most live largely in their browser anyway

You mean like ... in MS Edge?

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by ghaff on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:09PM (#34209599)

Yep with 4.5% browser market share, Microsoft Edge has sure crushed the rest of the industry. [1]

Teams is better in its category at 16% but that's a case of Office 365 pulling in teams rather than the other way around. (The same way Google Workplace pulls in Meet.)

[1] https://mspoweruser.com/edge-november-2022-desktop-browser-m...

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by ofrzeta on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:34PM (#34210573)

From the chart you posted the desktop market share of Edge is 11%. It's the second most used browser behind Chrome. Also I wonder what's the "category" for Teams.

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by ghaff on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:35PM (#34211212)

Ah, the 4.5% was from a different article and I linked to this one.

Teams is video conferencing software. It competes with Zoom, which is the category leader, Google Meet, Bluejeans, Webex, etc.

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