7d ago

Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year

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Linux marketshare is now big enough to fit tux inside the chart! We did it!
- It's the year of the Linux desktop
  
  It's funny to think there are already teenagers born in a year of the Linux desktop
- Exactly like the girls fantasized:

Thank you to all the linux gooners bumping these numbers up
- Its going to end up 1-2 freak self hoster's torrenting terrabytes of movies for the jellyfin servers instead of just streaming their porn, and thats why linux gets a marketshare.
  /s
  
  Can you not talk about my porn habits in public? Thanks.
  
  Stash app is better for PH style content.
- I'm doing my part 🫡
- I wonder if the numbers would be higher if there wasn't so much crossover between Linux users and unwillingness to pay for stuff that can be gotten for free

It's better to stay away from windows if you're having a wank.
- Brilliant
  
  That'd make a great switch to Linux billboard.
- You don't want an agentic AI to coach you through the process or relevant ads after?

unfortunately this is mostly an instance of https://xkcd.com/1102/
- It's probably SteamDecks alone.
- I'm as happy about this news as the next tech enthusiast, but bluntly, it's not a big shift. Going from ... What? 5% to 6%? That's great and all but it's hardly moving the needle.
  If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that's as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that's both good enough and transparent enough that people don't need to think about it much.
  Before we get Linux OEM PCs on store shelves, we need to figure out that last bit first.
  That still hasn't happened yet. We can't even agree what window manager should be used, nevermind any of the dozen or so other critical services on the system...
  The thing that makes Linux great is that anyone and everyone can, and does, make stuff for it. That's also the thing that's going to hold it back from being put on store shelves pre installed on prebuilt PCs.
  
  What? 5% to 6%? That’s great and all but it’s hardly moving the needle.
  It's huge because the people who do the tech support in the families are moving.
  
  If you look at the commercially successful variants of Linux (ChromeOS and Android), you'll see that taking away freedom/choice was the first thing they did.
  And ultimately, if you are targeting the mass market, that's almost required.
  
  If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that's as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that's both good enough and transparent enough that people don't need to think about it much.
  Boy have I got news for you
  
  So honest question, what is everyone's hopes with the increase in Linux desktop use?
  Like when I think about it the only thing I really care about is that I have decent hardware/driver support and holdouts for anti-cheat give up on requiring other operating systems (mostly so that my wife and eldest child stop complaining that I can't play Fortnite with them) as well as other random stuff that flat-out blocks use with Linux and requires either extra configuration or to keep a spare computer around with Windows.
  Basically I hope that Linux can be where MacOS was about a decade ago, a second platform that vendors are aware of and will put in some amount of effort in to support (and will be clear about limitations/lack of support otherwise) and it won't be as weird to employers or schools if you have a preference for the platform
  
  a little funny to see someone say the same exact thing as me, but conclude the opposite thing
  https://fosstodon.org/@Logical/_Error/115674824627182408
  that 1% gain translates to a lot of people. app devs will hopefully target linux now as there are finally a sizable amt of people on the platform. its breaking the chicken and egg cycle
  no need to worry about the software fragmentation. it gives OEMs a choice on how they would like to sell a system. we dont want to be like android now do we. i see it as a plus
- While that is a good point (and an xkcd I didn't know), the stats say Linux also had the largest absolute growth, so it's not quite as misleading as you make it out to be
- Yeah, I wish they'd made the second graph show percentage point difference instead of percentage growth.
  
  You can get a good approximation, multiply the pie graph percentages by a plausible population of PornHub users, get plausible numbers for each group, use those numbers to work out plausible numbers for the second graph

Now that Linux is mainstream where do we move to feel elitist? DragonFly BSD? Redox OS?
- TempleOS
- SerenityOS is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core".
  It's good enough to be proud of, while alienating normal people, not incidentally, like linux used to, but on purpose, like this sentence does, making it a great for elitists.
  
  Perfect. Installing now.
  Next year will be SerenityOS desktop year!
  
  I thought it was not recommended to run on bare metal? There are some other obscure OSes that can run fine on bare metal (although Serenity is not really obscure in the foss space, only in the mainstream)
  
  Hmm I cannot find some community discussions about this on distrowatch but this looks surely awesome! I always wanted to go back to my childhoods computing interface -- oh god I need that
  But what type of kernel is this the new talk about "custom unix-like core"? So this is not linux, it is also not unix? Seems like it would bring me back the same fun of exploring some unknown os, like when I was 7 years old.
  
  One could alternatively run GNU hurd, then you also get Debian but also cachè
- The real elites shall forever be the Plan9 group. There's dozens of users! Dozens!
- We just start the distro wars.
  
  I'm on Debian. Is that niche enough?
  
  The Distro Wars have already been raging for decades now.
- I preordered a Jolla. Chasing that "0.6 % Other" high.
- HaikuOS
- Create ExLisperOS and you're good to go.

Frustrating that you can't even get to the pornhub press pages and look at the year in review without hopping on VPN if you're in a restricted area. I feel like Cherie Deville with her PSA on the block page might technically be the most viewed model on there now.
- I feel your pain.
  Cries in Tennessee

Lots of wankers using Linux, eh?
- People probably don’t want to watch it with their Microsoft employee.

Would love to see what kind of porn Linux users watch compared to others.
- "Femboy" or furry, obviously.
  I use Arch btw.
- Polyamorous in public. It's open and anyone can contribute.
  
  Brilliant
- Anime? Manga? Tentacle?
  Whatever type it's probably esoteric and somehow involves the command line.
  
  what else is there ? porn with a GUI ??
  
  Whatever kink, but with consent not sudo.
  
  Why did no one tell me about the terminal tentacles?
- Personally, nothing on PornHub.
- I’d guess there’s less traffic to “landlubber” sites from Linux users.

ChromeOS always disturbs me. Is there a 2.4% out there casually watching porn on side with their chromebooks during highschool geometry?
And why they switching to linux?
- Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?
  
  Also probably some folks who bought a Chromebook in bulk from a school for pennies on the dollar.
  
  I snagged a Chromebook back in 2016 and used it for 9 years. It wasn't speedy, but for small time browsing, terminal use (I rooted it and put a real Linux distro in there), and media watching it was just fine.
- chromebooks during highschool geometry
  Nah, most of the school equipment/networks are monitored/blocked to hell and back. I'm not saying they can't find loopholes, but they're severely hampered, and when they get caught, it's a big deal.
  A lot of that chromeOS is people buying the cheapest hardware at Walmart and using it as their faptop.
  Just like a lot of the Linux is probably steamdecks.

Good job gooners.

PornHub is a treasure trove for... data science

AI agents and web scrapers surely
- I would expect AI scrapers to fake a windows user-agent tbh.
  
  Why? Isn't it likely that it'll just report e.g. "python-requests" for the user agent, and it's up to the server side to decide what that means?
- Chrome OS is down, they probably got reinstalled with regular Linux. The rest represents about 1% of the total market share, which could probably be Steam Decks.

I love when they give us this hard data. You can take this proof and shove it down hater's throats and perhaps even in other parts of their body.
- The safe word is "Torvalds".
  
  And the password for extra punishment is "closed source"

Year of the Linux gooning

I'm doing my part!
Heh, my "part"
- angry upvote 😡

Hey. It's been a lonely year. Don't shame me, bro.
- But nobody did...
  I watch porn sometimes. Period. No need too add guilt, shame or anything negative too that. It is somethin people do and is part of how people live their sexuality and that's that.

Linux usafe has surely grown, but I think a laege percentage of that are AI crawlers and shit like that.

MacOS getting a little side action, too.

Inadvertently contributed to this statistic lol

Genuine curiosity from someone not deeply familiar with the details - what sort of operating systems fall under "Other" for desktops?
- Pretty much everything other than TempleOS. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku OS, Redox OS, Sculpt OS etc.
  
  Imagine TempleOS for PH :) I'm not saying I don't think it happens ... but the irony.
- BSD, Haiku and pretty much anything that hides or manipulates the user agent string.

I'm gonna fire up haiku and boost that other percentage

I want SteamOS to turn into a general purpose OS so I can shitcan Windows for good!
- There are already quite a few immutable distros you could use today like Bazzite or Fedora Atomic. The main advantage of SteamOS is that it's tailor made for specific hardware, an advantage it would automatically lose as a general purpose OS.
- Name me a feature SteamOS has that Bazzite doesn't.
  
  It's got a reckognizable name and first party support from an actual company.
  
  Do you have Bazzite installed on a Steam Deck?
- Isn't it already in desktop mode? I swapped to linux and mostly use flatpaks on my main pc and havent looked back after a year.
  
  I forgot I was using docked bazzite handheld as a pc for setup yesterday and started using it for my normal browsing. No differnce using zen there or on my pc, except the amount of tabs before I lag, way less resources but I didnt really experience issues (legion go s z2 go)

The Philippines has been a lot in the news lately, did not expect them to be an inspiration for the Linux world as well.

I'm doing my part

Useragent counts towards this?
- Yeah it'll be a naive check of just Useragent, so some of these will be bots, some will be spoofed, etc

Statistical anomaly. This year they accidentally counted Jorkin Georg.

People who use Linux probably just have less sex and watch porn instead ;)
- Could this just be AI scrapers running Linux?
  
  I'm more willing to bet this is VPN servers running linux
- Wrong. If that were true, it wouldn't have suddenly gone up 22% this past year.
  ...I wonder, did something happen recently that might have led to an influx of incels/cucks/betas into the chad Linux community?
- I thought our primary way of producing new Linux users was sexual reproduction and then indoctrination from birth...

Lost a little of its acid.
- Not even 0.1 units, though.

This must somehow be related to the VPN vendors, right? Or perhaps even remote desktops?
- Nah, I was just feeling extra lonely this year and created some extra traffic.

I think this is YoY PP growth as a percentage, which might be unintentionally confusing.

There's an old thing "the thing that won the Video Format Wars was porn", because in the 80s, mail order and rental porn was very popular, and the easiest format (VHS) to buy and record onto won largely because of that.
Makes me wonder if we'll see the same for Operating Systems?
- It was probably sports that made VHS the winner. Porn was on both technologies (and available at local video rental places in Australia at least).
  VHS could handle a full gridiron game (but not a cricket match) but Betamax couldn't.
  
  The real truth is it's probably both, and also other factors, but over time people have simplified the explanation to be "it's just one of the factors that did it!"

Link my friend?

Isn't this skewed by people using a dedicated faptop or dual booting to Linux for extra privacy?

VPN services probably run on Linux
- Vpn services doesn't change your user agent typically
- This would have zero effect on these metrics. A VPN only routes your connection through a server, which device identification is not affected by.

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