Why don't more people use Linux?

Re:Why don't more people use Linux? by troymc on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:57PM (#41427466)

A lot of people are using Linux without even knowing it.

Android uses a modified version of the Linux kernel; it depends on the Linux kernel project. According to Statcounter, Android has about 72% global market share on smartphones, with iOS at about 28% [1].

Many websites and web services run on Linux, at least in part. Wordpress, the most popular CMS, with around 63% market share [2], can run on other OSes, but it's usually run on Linux.

Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server [3].

Linux is also used in lots of other everyday things, e.g. automobiles, microwave ovens, routers, etc. You get the idea.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

[2] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_ma...

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-li...

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Re:Why don't more people use Linux? by fngjdflmdflg on Monday September 02, 2024 @02:33PM (#41427756)

>Android uses a modified version of the Linux kernel

Increasingly, it is using a mostly standard kernel. The kernel fork is here,[0] although I'm not sure exactly how many out of upstream patches they have now. It would be nice if someone how knows how to do this in git could check. See also GKI.[1]

[0] https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/gen...

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