It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't
    • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      ChromeOS.

      Apparently, desktop Linux use measures 3.08 per cent, lagging about a quarter behind the usage of ChromeOS at 4.15 per cent. The problem with this is that ChromeOS is also a Linux distribution. It’s a strange distro, non-standard in several ways, but current versions are built on the basis of Gentoo Linux, switching from an Ubuntu basis some years earlier.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    A quick summary of this [frankly, rather crappy] article boils down to “I don’t understand, why people ignore the 4% of ChromeOS usage when talking about the 3% of Linux usage?” written in the most facepalm-worthy way, spamming fallacies like there was no tomorrow:

    • “Which is also Linux, but the wrong kind of Linux.” - strawman
    • “which means that [desktop Linux]¹ has less than half of the [desktop Linux]² market.” - ambiguity (“1” refers to a subset of “2”)
    • “It’s not a typical Linux, because typical Linuxes are tools for nerdy hacker types, and that kind of OS will never, ever go mainstream unless someone forces people to use it” - begging the question + ad hominem
    • “So naturally the Forces of FOSS hate it. Of course they do. And how do they express that contempt? By saying it’s not a True Linux.” - repeating the strawman again, for an ad nauseam

    Also note that the same type of stupid reasoning from the article would also “prove” that MacOS is a *BSD.

    What a weird hill to die on.

  • dartanjinn@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    TL;DR: ChromeOS is Linux but it’s not Linux but it’s a Linux so count it as a Linux but not Linux. Half.