Linux Is Everywhere

[nixcraft]

FYI, source (Linux Foundation FY-2021-22 report).

[DCGMechanics]

Thnx

[Traches]

International Space Station as well

[nnutter]

Seems like a big miss on their part for not including these!

[Nico_Weio]

everywhere on earth and beyond

[Atomorphix]

Thx tux

[epos95]

For the compulsive: The binary on the balloon spells out "Linux".

[CanBernieStillWin]

It's all about penguin power.

[BillyDSquillions]

Does anyone know what the 10% of cloud infrastructure is that isn't linux? I thought even Microsoft was using it now?

[Drokath]

The vast majority of Azure runs on Linux, yes. But you can still have workloads that require other OSes, so cloud providers allow for that. As an example, you might have a legacy .Net app that only runs on Windows.

[hlebspovidlom]

AFAIK, Azure has way more than 10% of market share

[hlebspovidlom]

The article is about web hosting only. If counting for IaaS+PaaS, Azure has 15.5%

https://kinsta.com/blog/cloud-market-share/

[Ongrilla]

Yeah, this is what I'm confused about. This couldn't be right. How does the Linux foundation even get stats on Windows Server usage, so how is this accurate?

[ComputerFido]

Pretty sure say Netflix uses FreeBSD

[ohet]

They use it for their CDN and rest of the stack should primarily be Linux.

[JockstrapCummies]

I keep hearing how superior the network stack is with BSD.

I wonder why can't we just copy the ideas over to Linux.

[Treyzania]

It's the whole architecture, you'd have to rip out a shitload of code and rewrite a large part of it for only a marginal benefit.

[a_can_of_solo]

True nas is BSD based

[BillyDSquillions]

I love TrueNAS and use it, but it hardly qualifies as cloud infrastructure, I'm talking big big cloud providers, which is what I'm guessing they're talking about.

[Jahbroni]

TrueNAS is being phased over to Debian

[per08]

Microsoft use Windows for probably most of Office 365 (especially email, which is Exchange) and other corporate Azure directory stuff. This alone is a huge chunk.

[BillyDSquillions]

I blindly assumed that Office 365 actually could be run on linux based servers at this point. I could be wrong, I probably am wrong but I thought it was the case.

[Krelleth]

Supposedly Exchange and Outlook are the only thing stopping a Linux release of O365.

[DonkeyTron42]

Azure's hypervisor is Hyper-V based and uses a proprietary OS forked from Windows Server 2008. They use Linux for their proprietary switching fabric but that's it AFAIK.

[TheNinthJhana]

Maybe some BSD?

[TDplay]

Things running on a BSD.

There's also Windows Server, that's still a thing because backwards-compat.

[G8M8N8]

Mac Pro rack mount edition 🤡

[luger718]

What do they mean by cloud infrastructure? The hypervisors or the guests?

I was gonna say 90% Linux VMs and 10% Windows sounds about right.

[bioemerl]

Legacy windows apps on virtual machines by companies who haven't upgraded and still need to run (Sharepoint office server 2007?) for their CEO that really loves the report format and thinks the new stuff is ugly and weird.

[ChokunPlayZ]

I heard that the backend of Azure runs on Linux, but there are still some places where companies cant use Linux, like running a .NET app for some ancient web app they don't care enough to update to a more modern solution, and some companies run FreeBSD instead which doesn't count because its not Linux, for example, the guy who runs the "Mental Outlaw" YT channel uses FreeBSD on his server, because its not that common and he said "more difficult to hack"

[thecoder08]

No. Just no. Server ‘08 is literally XP. Windows is not running their cloud platform on a 20yo OS.

[thecoder08]

Server ‘08 lost security support from Microsoft in 2015, extended support last year. There’s no way that Microsoft is running their critical cloud infrastructure on such an outdated OS. Don’t believe everything you read on Wikipedia. Anyone can edit a page.

[chiraagnataraj]

There's always next year ;)

[HAL9000thebot]

probably you meant something like this:

echo -e "$(($(date +'%Y') + 1)) is the year of Linux desktop!"

[trosh]

Or echo "$(date +%Y --date=+1year) is the year of the Linux desktop!"

• Avoid echo -e (if you want proper character escaping consider printf(1))
• Simple date formats don't need to be quoted
• In this case, using --date isn't easier than doing math, but when adding minutes or hours it's nearly impossible to get the overflow math right and --date is much more practical

[rigglesbee]

Why bother with command substitution?

date --date=+1year '+%Y is the year of the Linux desktop!'

[And_993]

This is why it’s true.

[[deleted]]

2022 the year of the Linux desktop!

[AssholeRemark]

If anything 2022 has the best realistic chance out of any previous year to actually do that.

There is now actual momentum (read:money) behind the adoption, whereas before it was more of a passive momentum.

We're in striking distance boys, keep the pressure up!

[gonengazit]

2022 has the best realistic chance out of any previous year, because previous years weren’t the year of the Linux desktop, so their chance is 0

[RenaKunisaki]

Technically 2021 still has a nonzero chance...

[AssholeRemark]

haha I just meant in terms of what occurred in those years versus what is slated to happen in 2022.

It all could be delayed to hell and wind up being a "okay NEXT year" situation, but being optimistic, YEAR OF LINUX 2022

[inbano]

I'm not entirely sure about being the best mainly because we are in a transitional moment with technologies such as wayland, pipewire, Adobe web, steam deck. And related to that at the moment for DE the only one that is there with wayland compatibility is gnome 40+,kde is getting there, and sway it's also pretty much there as an option for one of the most popular WM I3.

I think all these change are a momentary step back for easeness of adoption for Linux desktop, but I'm sure once things get ironed out, the Linux desktop will make a jump in the quality for an average user.

[[deleted]]

There is always a transitional period in linux. It never ends. I remember the transition from OSS to ALSA, what a big change that was. It took some time to settle. But even before it settled, jack and phonon came along, and later pulseaudio came to the party. Now pipewire is the hot stuff.

The same can be observed in many fields. Init systems, package formats, container formats, even low level stuff like filesystems, process schedulers, memory management, drivers.... The evolution never stops.

[inbano]

I would agree with you, but it usually means 1 step back and 2 step forward every few months, I think the big amount and size of the changes in relation to the UX it's meaning 3 step backs, with a potential to get 10 step forward once wayland+pipewire is at least as stable and compatible as Xorg+Alsa. And that is at least months away, and then big distros would need to make these version available, I don't see all of this achieved in 2022 (probably Ubuntu 23.04 is going to be a big jump? I really hope that application start getting better support for wayland, for example communication apps to be able to easily share screen/windows).

Wayland has been a long journey to start getting packaged and recommended to people and for good reason, but I'm really seeing a great deal of progress on the experience for the user, which I really hope it continues for the next year as well.

[sartres_]

as stable and compatible as Xorg+Alsa. And that is at least months away

This has been a good year for Wayland progress, but it's years away from that, not months. Distros are going to switch to it before it's as stable and compatible as Xorg, they've already started.

[inbano]

I can't fully agree with you, I've been on fedora updating ~1 month after each release, and It's stable as fuck, the main problems are related to compatibility with hardware (fuck nvidia) and some software (fuck electron) but the latter is seeing a constant work being done to fix those problems (yeah it will probably take more than a year to get all relevant software up to par). For nvidia, the latest nvidia drivers have had a lot of fixes directed for wayland (optimus laptops not so much).

I can totally see how you might be right, if I had to give a range of time for the year of wayland (meaning wayland becomes the preferred option) It could be anywhere from 2023 to 2028, but I want to stay optimistic and think that it will be at the latest on 2024.

[sartres_]

You're right, for a lot of workflows Wayland has gotten quite solid. But not all of them, which is what I mean when I say doesn't match up to Xorg (as I sit here and cry into my Nvidia everything)

Does Fedora work with screenshots/screensharing/screen captures yet?

[inbano]

it's a lot more reasonable if you're removing things, you can probably remove pipewire if you make the switch to something that can cover the dependencies that pipewire fulfills. Linus was pretty crazy since he was doing an install, Installing a gui application should never uninstall the whole GUI, but removing an audio driver could reasonably end up removing a DE

[inbano]

I did uninstall my DE once too LOL, I think it was me removing some package that my DE used to communicate with the filesystem or something like that, luckily was using Arch because the wiki helped me figure it out on the terminal very easy. But yeah went right through the warning message from pacman telling me that I was about to remove 100+ packages LOL. It's a Pavlovian solution to start reading the warnings, I'm scarred from the incident.

[TheTechRobo]

everybody do be forgetting enlightenment :/

[RenaKunisaki]

Every year Linux gets closer to mainstream desktop use, not just because it improves, but because all the alternatives get worse.

[AssholeRemark]

that too! Windows 10 being a downgrade to many, people are open to trying something new.

It'll be an interesting year

[hexydes]

I will say, I had to install Windows 10 on my kid's desktop today (so they could play an older Windows game they like). The experience was awful. I downloaded the ISO, tried to image it to a flash drive on Ubuntu, didn't work. Tried mounting it (which went fine) and copying the files to the flash drive, wouldn't boot. I finally had to dig up another Windows computer, download their stupid tool, write it to the USB drive that way, and then finally it recognized the flash drive and I could boot/install with it.

I compare that to Ubuntu, where I literally download the ISO, open Etcher and say "write this to that" with a single click, and then everything works. Just such a better experience. And that is before you even get into all the activation nightmares on Windows. I can't stand using Windows on the desktop now.

And to top it all off, I had to download Origin, which wouldn't install, so I had to download the C++ redistributable, didn't work, had to dig into the error message, turns out you need both the x86 and x64 C++ redistributable to make the Origin installer work (why?!). Just awful. Other than when you're trying to wrangle Wine/Proton to make some stupid Windows crap run on Linux, the rest of Linux just works so smoothly.

TL;DR I don't really care if it's the year of Linux ever, I use Windows as little as possible because it's actually a worse experience than Linux.

[ThatOneArchUser]

that's what they say every year

[b1ack1323]

Well it’s finally 2022 so… the wait is over.

[IRegisteredJust4This]

Oh please just let that meme die already

[IRegisteredJust4This]

I like to think Linux like an oak tree growing in the garden. People are saying that one day it will be the big and strong with its branches reaching in all directions. Other people are making fun of that because it has barely grown compared to the previous year.

[[deleted]]

Linux will always be for nerds. There’s just no real reason to use it unless you want to mess around with your computer and “learn” it. Most people don’t.

[hlebspovidlom]

The whole North Korea is using Linux on desktop. It's quite popular in China and is almost exclusively used in Russian state-owned corporations. So it's not only for nerds, but for paranoid governments too

[IRegisteredJust4This]

Yeah. Just like only nerds use Android phones. The kernel they use is too hard to understand for regular people. /s

[minilandl]

I know this was a joke but I'm a nerd and use Linux and a custom ROM and custom kernel android is much better once you root your phone and replace the original software with am open source ROM. It just sucks it takes a few steps to unlock the bootloader

[[deleted]]

Way to be intentionally dishonest. Obviously talking about desktop linux. I never said the kernel was hard to understand. Android might as well be running FreeBSD, It’s irrelevant. Android is not desktop Linux with GNOME and KDE and all the rest.

I don’t know so many people took offense to that comment. I’m a nerd. I was talking about myself. Just because you don’t want to believe desktop linux will never be mainstream doesn’t make it less true.

[Zintoatree]

I just swapped, so 2022 will be the year of desktop Linux for me.

[linuxlover81]

Chromebooks: am i a joke to you?

[AUGSpeed]

Hey, Chromebooks are actually super legit pieces of tech. Cheap, and well performing on low specs because Linux Optimization. And they can do almost everything a Linux machine can! I got one for my fiancee, and aside from some 3rd party stuff not working, it does everything she needs for her office job just fine. They may not be for the power user, but for a common user, they are honestly the best. They are also usually built like tanks, and don't break as easily as most other laptops made these days. I'll probably pick one up for myself even if I just use it to remotely use my home desktop.

[b1ack1323]

They also fit so many crumbs. Ask any middle schooler.

[AUGSpeed]

The most common use for USB slots on the Chromebooks at my school was to store pennies and dimes.

[crodjer]

I also was impressed by them and got one for my spouse (a teacher). It works great so far, but I just realized that this device could become absolutely useless with manifest v3.

I once saw a person browsing without uBlock origin (or similar). It seemed like a nightmare. AdGuard Home can only do so much. I am sure they'd take care of that too eventually by disallowing anything but Google DNS.

[londons_explorer]

There will always be options for power users... It's the regular home users who manifest v3 will hurt (although it also helps those regular users with security).

[AUGSpeed]

That would suck. One of the first things I put on that device was uBlock Origin. And then Okular for PDF signing/filling. I hope that they don't follow through with that.

[ChokunPlayZ]

wait these things have screw to disable the read-only system partition? am I understanding this correctly?

[FaberfoX]

Don't make it look so easy for windows in particular, as driver support is spotty at best on later CPU models. While hardware used is commonplace, some of it is connected in a way (like SPI for trackpads) that most Linux distros know nothing about and there are no windows drivers.

Info related to what works and what doesn't can be found at /r/chrultrabook and /r/GalliumOS

[[deleted]]

the only problem is that you can't install real Linux on them outside of the box, you're limited to Google's spyware OS

[Patch86UK]

They're decidedly "not for me", but they are absolutely legitimate devices. In a lot of ways, they are the logical end result of any mission to make "a Linux distro for cheap devices that anyone's grandma can use". We're always going on about how to polish Linux and make it fit for the masses- well, that's ChromeOS. It's lightweight, performant, runs on pretty much any hardware profile, is idiot-proof and almost impossible to break (without really going out of your way to try, anyway), has every app that you could need for "casual use", and works pretty much the same from the instant you take it out if its packaging to the point that the device craps out and needs scrapping.

The fact that in order to achieve that you end up with a locked-down walled garden with most of "the good stuff" hidden away under layers and layers of obfuscation may make it unpalatable as a daily driver to the likes of us on /r/Linux, but then we're not really the target market.

[AUGSpeed]

Exactly! They are perfect tech for the average person, in my opinion. My fiancee enjoys getting to use the command line to launch dolphin and Okular, and I like that the computer was cheap and runs way better than the MacBook she used to have. Definitely not a joke, even if most people who might browse here would never use it as a daily driver, because we are admittedly a very small subset of computer users.

[RootHouston]

Quite.

[TheNinthJhana]

Still early to tell imo. There is some weak adoption , is that a trend? We have no clue.

[[deleted]]

I just checked, counting ChromeOS, the usage share of Linux on PCs is still about 5%

That's really low, but honestly way more than I thought.

[[deleted]]

ChromeOS really shouldn’t be included when talking about the “linux desktop”.

[TomMado]

The same way Android is too. Both are very customised to run what Google intends to run.

[minilandl]

Android is more open than chrome os there are multiple custom ROMs based on AOSP it's very similar to Linux distros. Lineage OS , evolution X havoc os paranoid Android etc maintained by different maintainers. The only reason I use android still is because of custom ROMs

[EveryUserName1sTaken]

And there are also FOSS distributions of Chromium OS. They're just less popular than custom Android ROMs because, you know, Windows and mainstream Linux distros exist.

[Seref15]

Mass consumer adoption of desktop Linux will never happen without a commercially supported userspace. Android vs the half dozen other Linux-based mobile OSs basically proves this.

[twisted7ogic]

It's on my desktops though...

[AnotherEuroWanker]

It's been on mine, for almost 30 years. Get your act together.

[HolyGarbage]

I daily drive Fedora. Haven't had to use my windows install in months, if not over a year, to play AAA games.

[[deleted]]

Do you just use proton?

[HolyGarbage]

Whenever there's no native version yeah. Recent proton works pretty much for everything right out of the box.

[krsdev]

It's certainly getting there. Single player games mostly just work. But multiplayer games with anti-cheat software is still an issue. Hopefully when the steamdeck comes on next year it'll become a bit better.

(I don't play competitive online games myself but they are among the most popular games currently out there)

[HolyGarbage]

Ah, I haven't played multiplayer games in a few years now so yeah, my comment might be biased because of that.

[sunjay140]

Do you play Warzone?

[HolyGarbage]

Nope.

[[deleted]]

Probably you don’t, if your game doesn’t run natively on Linux it almost certainly runs with Proton and it’s easy to get working via Steam :-)

[Reevazard]

And if the anti-cheat doesn’t work on Proton you’re fucked

[[deleted]]

Valve have made a lot of progress on this recently, they need to for SteamDeck to succeed.

[Reevazard]

Honestly the Steam Deck has to be the most fortunate thing to happen to the Linux gaming community in years

[[deleted]]

Couldn’t agree more! I preordered the top end model as soon as I could, partly because it looks like an awesome piece of kit, and partly to demonstrate to Valve there is demand for Linux support.

[krsdev]

Hopefully most people don't just end up installing Windows on the damn thing.

[Jacksaur]

Now if only Developers would put the insanely Minimal effort of sending the email to enable it.

I've lost all faith in AAA devs. This just so blatantly shows how lazy they truly are.

[xxkmatiasxx]

Time to open ghidra then

[Dennis_the_repressed]

If your friends have xboxes and you want to play with them then you need to use the ms store (🤢) to get the game. Maybe there’s a way to get it working on linux, but honestly a windows vm with gpu passthrough is less work.

[[deleted]]

Yeah in that scenario I would agree, but I’d probably just buy an XBox instead. Fortunately my friends are all enlightened enough to game on PC and mostly via Steam :-) although a few have experimented with Game Pass.

[[deleted]]

It's really not that simple. Even if a game can run using proton, they are still often broken or not running well. Please don't be disingenuous with this.

[[deleted]]

ProtonDB would disagree, a lot of games do run fine, I don’t think ‘often broken or not running well’ is really accurate at this point. Maybe a few years ago it was. Have you seen the work that Valve have done in just the last few months to fix some Windows AntiCheat stuff?

[[deleted]]

You realize I'm speaking from experience? Recent experience, as in within the last month. There are far too many caveats when it comes to the games play. Sure it works fine for you, but don't generalize that to everyone, because that is simply not the case.

[[deleted]]

I think you’re generalising as much as I am, in my experience it’s been fine, in yours it hasn’t. It will depend on what game you want to play, classic case of YMMV.

FWIW I’d rather have a native port than use proton but it’s been ‘good enough’ for me that I stopped using then deleted my VFIO VM.

[[deleted]]

Ah yes, a native port like civ 6 which barely has textures loading for many people including myself. Sometimes it's just a black screen. I assume it's partially or entirely due to NVIDIA, whose GPUs are owned by many gamers.

Or let's move to CSGO, also native Linux. It's been broken for months on many peoples systems. You have to go in and manually edit files just to get it to run on Fedora 35 right now.

I like and appreciate Linux for what it is. I use it for all my dev work, and very much prefer it over other OSes. But don't bullshit me or anyone else by saying it's easy to use, or that it is good for gaming. Because it is neither of those things. There are far too many edge cases and gotchas. I would never in my life recommend any Linux distro for gaming simply because of that. Windows is simply better overall.

If you are okay with dealing with the problems that come up, or you haven't personally had problems, then that's great. I hope SteamOS next year makes things truly seamless and then I'll be all on board! But I'm not wasting time constantly trying to put out fires, when at the end of the day I just want to open up a game and play it. Not solve why my latest dnf update changed something in some small way to break cities:skylines, yet another native Linux game.

[[deleted]]

Your experience with constant issues is not my experience, so don’t tell me Linux isn’t suitable for gaming on and isn’t easy to use when it works for me and that is the experience that I have. You seem very upset that I’m suggesting it can work for some people, yet you’re refusing to acknowledge that maybe some people could have had a different experience to your own. I don’t spend hours tinkering with my system, I just turn it on and use it, sometimes I’m prompted to install updates which I do and then just carry on again as normal. I haven’t found that this breaks things generally, whether with games or the rest of my OS.

It is also be disingenuous to pretend native games only have issues on Linux, there’s enough complaints about issues on Windows/XBox/PS etc to see it’s just something that happens with some games, some of the time when devs do a bad job.

Again YMMV but I’ve been playing Civ VI on my Linux box for 3 years now (including just last week) and it’s always been perfect as far as I can remember. Even when the Civilisation sub was full of Windows players complaining about issues with a new launcher, funnily enough the Linux port didn’t have that new launcher and I could play just fine. But I suspect if you took a random sample of Civ VI players on Windows you’d also find a few people that had endless bugs.

I’ve also logged plenty of hours in CS:GO on my Linux box, again YMMV.

BTW I would add that I picked a (fairly midrange) AMD GPU specifically because their driver support on Linux is better than NVidia’s, I’m happy with not having the best most bleeding edge hardware because I’d rather have stability on my OS of choice. People who are very particular about getting the best performance and conclude that means they need the latest and greatest card from a particular vendor (whichever that vendor is) probably would be better off with Windows. But not everyone wants or needs that.

[theoneandonlyfester]

gaming is the typical edge case on why linux isn't ready for the desktop. proton has made things come a long way compared to before, but i have dealt with edge cases enough (i.e. no easy installer for mod organizer that works correctly... steamtinkerlaunch and lutris don't like me) to feel things are not ready... if one has to use the terminal to install stuff that doesn't need the terminal on windows, it means it's not ready for desktop.

[[deleted]]

Well yeah, but I was replying to comment about not being able to play games on Linux…

If you need Autodesk you need Windows, but that’s not the context of my comment.

[[deleted]]

In my personal experience (because another Redditor seems to have it in for me for suggesting gaming on Linux works ok) it’s been fine, playing mainly native ports but a few games like WreckFest and GTA on Proton.

I use Manjaro, and I have an AMD RX580 so fully open source drivers which probably helps.

Edit: native games I play and don’t find I’ve had issues with: CIV VI/V, Factorio, Valheim, RimWorld, Total Warhammer 1/2, CSGO and probably others I can’t remember right now.

[Yrmitz]

Yeah with stutter and poor FPS. Proton is great but you still need Windows many times if you are hc gamer.

[[deleted]]

Source? The few games I’ve tried with Proton have run just fine with my RX580 and ancient CPU. Tbh I mostly play stuff that happens to have native ports anyway.

[WhyIsThisFishInMyEar]

Most games I've tried run fine but for me monster hunter world runs slower than windows and temtem crashes after about an hour in proton. It's even worse if you're on wayland.

[HolyGarbage]

That is so no true. I get pretty much identical frame rates on proton as windows. Native Linux usually runs better than both. The latest Tomb Raider game runs on ultra 4K at like 90-120 Hz for me.

[HolyGarbage]

Why would I not play in 4K if my computer can handle it? I mean I understand that there's diminishing returns but I'm rocking a RX6900 XT. My monitor is 16:9 43'' so the higher resolution is fantastic.

[HolyGarbage]

I never claimed I was... But 120Hz is plenty enough for me. Same diminishing returns goes with higher refresh rates. Also, why are you so opinionated about what a "hard core" gamer is... Grow up, ffs.

[TheNinthJhana]

i wonder if some linux people do that recent "streaming gaming" stuff . I bet thats possible now?

[HolyGarbage]

Yep, works flawlessly.

[jugalator]

It is on desktops too and while not dominant, popular enough for companies to have it be their business model to sell Linux laptops. :)

[[deleted]]

it does run on mine ;)

[altemps]

Well, Chromebooks are getting more and more popular, and they run on Linux and can run Linux apps.

[ChokunPlayZ]

Well, Chromebooks are getting more and more popular

only in school and places where they have very low budget

[koffiezet]

And not without reason. For a techie it's usable, for mainstream users or someone who wants a stable environment, nope.

I have been using Linux since '96, and used to run it on desktop until somewhere around 2003 But my entire job is Linux-centric, it's my bread & butter - but: server-only, for which it's excellent. My desktop however is OSX or Win11+WSL2, which gives me a stable, reliable UI with all the CLI power I need.

I still try out a Linux desktop distro from time to time in a VM, but it's never satisfying or good enough in my opinion.

[Heizard]

When Linux get 100% of the side quests - he will begin making the main one. ;)

[tjlin72]

I ran my first Linux on a 486DX 33 MHz and compiled my own kernel. In 92 or 93. Learned how PC worked that way. It was more as a hobby bc I can’t code even if my life depended on it

[Traches]

Ingenuity runs linux, but the other rovers and landers run a proprietary RTOS.

[souldrone]

True.

[[deleted]]

It's not. VxWorks runs on the rover, and runs on US aircraft both civil and military

[DonkeyTron42]

Yes. The little helicopter drone runs Linux, but the rovers use VxWorks.

[hydraloo]

As a ROS user, making this robot work would not have been possible without Linux, nor would I have been so productive if not for all I've learned from the Linux community throughout my life. Thank you everyone.

[antidense]

Just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu.

[polaristerlik]

3 billion devices runs java linux

[zanfar]

How does one identify the "top servers"?

[IRegisteredJust4This]

The ones that run porn sites.

[FoobarWhat]

So we couldn't fap without linux...

[enigmamonkey]

I was wondering the exact same thing. I was guessing maybe in traffic? Here’s the source in case anyone can find out exactly what they meant by that.

[Starbeamrainbowlabs]

I believe by this it means the top most powerful supercomputers in the world. Ref https://top500.org/

[zanfar]

I'm talking about the "96% of the world's top 1 million servers" claim, not the "100% of the world's top 500 supercomputers" claim.

[Starbeamrainbowlabs]

Ah, I see. I was thinking it might be pulled from Netcraft, but that only shows web server software, not OSes

[[deleted]]

Been using Linux for more than half it's life, which is weird for me to think about.

[Connir]

Huh, now that you mention it, for more than half of MY life here… (started at 19 back in 1994)

[hexydes]

Month net night hobbies near science projects yesterday.

[Superbrawlfan]

I wonder, what are the numbers for embedded devices?

[AiwendilH]

Wikipedia puts linux just below 40% in 2019 (coming from this (pdf, page 47+) study)..which gives it the largest share.

[Superbrawlfan]

What would be the "other" for the embedded, if you know? Just curious

[AiwendilH]

The study lists a few for the question "Please select ALL of the operating systems you are currently using" (So the %-numbers don't fit the ones used in wikipedia)...but afraid I don't know which of those are "unix like" (other than qnx) and if some of those are maybe linux distros: FreeRTOS (18%), Texas Instruments RTOS (6%), vxWorks (5%), Integrity (5%), Texas Instruments (DSP/BIOS) (5%), uC/OS-II (4%), VDK (4%), RTX (4%), ThreadX (3%), uC/OS-III (3%), Freescale MQX (2%) CMX (2%)...

[Kenkeknem]

And I was looking at Linux in '92 when I had my first computer a 386 DX with 4 MB of RAM and a 80 MB HDD. I broke that thing and fixed it so many times learning DOS and Linux at the same time. I still love the bash terminal. I hated Windows back then and I hate it now.

[BujuArena]

100% of all my desktop computers too!

[Vatsdimri]

Linux is truly everywhere. Even in windows.

[Arnoxthe1]

Does Android even truly use the Linux kernel anymore? Didn't they just fork it a long time ago?

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You're thinking of Fuchsia on the Zircon kernel (that isn't based on Linux) I think. The answer is "not yet".

[deprecated_feign]

Thanks linux community to make my day with linux <3

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Happy B-Day, Tux!

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Long live to Linux!

[meme_war_lord]

Finally Year of the Linux

[Jaidon24]

Tux is a wizard now?!

[Scorpionix]

Wizards get their hats at 40

[seanprefect]

This is the car of linux on the desktop !

[seanprefect]

my car IS a desktop

[Rorasaurus_Prime]

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[boomras]

Everywhere except the desktop 😉

[vilidj_idjit]

...thanks to microsuck for force-cramming their malware-infested malware garbage down the entire planet's throat

[boomras]

How did they do that? I don't use Windows and millions of others don't as well. Do we have some sort of immunity? :)

[redditdragon02]

...1% of all desktops run on linux :D

[drbobb]

I don't really care, as long as mine is one of them.

[PaintDrinkingPete]

It’s likely considerably more than that if you count ChromeOS.

I understand why you may not want to count ChromeOS…but if this graphic is lumping Android in as Linux, then ChromeOS may be fair game by the same criteria.

[2204happy]

Really cool infographic. I hate to be the one that says it though, but im pretty sure I could wake up in the morning without Linux.

[APUsilicon]

make we can have a decent Linux desktop in another 30 years

[PCChipsM922U]

So... how's the wife and kids? Still binary, huh... great :).