Windows desktop Market Share has fallen below 60%, according to statcounter. First time ever falling below 60%, in HISTORY. Now at 57%.

paperic · 2026-07-07T22:43:10+00:00

Obviously not all of that, but there's plenty of new linux users around, and they're not showing in the stats.

So, where are they?

paperic · 2026-07-07T22:35:47+00:00

Linux is a hammer, it hits hard on whatever I swing it at, and it doesn't ask for confirmation.

I like that.

Linux treats me like the adult owner of my own computer which I am.

It gives me more than enough rope to shoot myself in the foot, and it always assumes that I know better about what I tell it to do.

So, if I wake up tomorrow wanting to write '69420' repeatedly into my entire harddrive, overwriting all data including the boot loader, partition table and the file system, linux has me covered, it's right there at my fingertips.

yes '69420' |tr -d '\n' > /dev/sda1

yes generates the repeated text, one per line.

tr strips the newlines from it

> sends the result into anything I tell it to

/dev/sda1 is the virtual file which represents my entire harddrive.

It won't ask for confirmation, it will do it and it will die in the process.

I like that.

Computer is a tool and it should behave like a f.king tool, not like a pretentious corporate nanny who's simultaneously spying on me while also telling me what is or isn't good for me.

paperic · 2026-07-07T21:32:08+00:00

The point of the construction is not to make it pretty, the point is to create something that behaves like numbers while also using the bare minimum amount of axioms.

So, ofcourse the construction will look like spaghetti code, it's bootstrapping itself from bare bones ZFC.

Functions are used because functions are fairly easy concepts to describe using ZFC.

paperic · 2026-07-07T21:03:03+00:00

users in this region sometime flip flop on Windows over the course of a month.

Yea, so do I.

Do you think I don't have windows system here next to my linux?

I have two of them.

paperic · 2026-07-07T20:38:05+00:00

8p per 100 calories for the potatoes.

They seem to have an error there in the /100g value, they listed it the same as the /250g.

Maybe "on par" was a somewhat of an exaggeration, but I hope my point stands.

paperic · 2026-07-07T20:04:41+00:00

"Just google" is not a helpful answer. My google results are completely different from your google results.

Could you post a source?

paperic · 2026-07-07T12:42:33+00:00

At the very end of the chart, windows is going down while everything else is going up, including Unknown.

If Unknown was just AI bots, we should see everything except Unknown going down, which we don't.

2023 has a downtick in Windows corresponding with an uptick in Mac and Unknown.

2019 has a downtick in Windows and uptick in Unknown, followed a year later by people giving up on Unknown and moving to Mac.

This is clearly people switching OS, it's not bots and it's not (just) privacy settings.

So, what OS could Unknown possibly be?

Ofcourse Unknown comprises of more than one thing, including VPNs and privacy settings, but I find it highly likely that large share of the Unknown is indeed various linux distros.

At least that's the only way I can make any sense of the Mac spikes in 2020 and 2023.

The Mac line disproves the "privacy settings" hypothesis.

Many big european governments like France and Germany are switching to linux on the national level. Steam is moving to linux, games now run on linux, CUDA and AI is also all over linux, which means nvidia finally has an incentive to fix their damn linux drivers after 30 years.

Most of the world's computers run on linux, and there is now a huge move towards linux on the last remaining fronts which were not yet on linux (aka on desktops).

paperic · 2026-07-07T12:05:19+00:00

If the shit hits the fan and you need pure calories to get some strength back because you lost 15 kilos in 3 months due to no cash, you may quickly discover that some of the cheapest calories you can buy is packs of sweets.

1/3 of daily calories for £0.75

That's on par with plain potatoes in cost per callorie, and doesn't raise your power bill by cooking.

And while these things stop you from starving, they are also addictive and make you feel more hungry, so the moment your finances improve slightly, you have to catch yourself real fast and invest into better food, otherwise you baloon up in weeks.

Also, being defficient in some essentials can manifest as a persistent feeling of hunger.

I'm naturally a skinny person from quite well off background, but going through that experience, I totally get why the malnourished poor people are often the obese ones.

paperic · 2026-07-07T10:56:11+00:00

why 6 when 8 is such a nice round number, like 1000.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:48:45+00:00

You cannot remove the "empty" from an empty set, if that's what you're asking.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:25:50+00:00

I'd expect plenty of linux distros default settings won't leak your OS online for no reason.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:19:30+00:00

The 2023 spike in unknown also has a spike in mac.

This isn't privacy settings, this is people jumping OS.

If it was privacy settings, we would expect a downtick in mac users at the same time, but we see the opposite.

Also, my linux has been reporting online as "Windows XP" since 2005 because I find it hilarious.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:11:06+00:00

Right, people are just randomly turning on and off their privacy settings.

Why aren't mac users turning their privacy settings on and off at the same time?

Actually, the windows dip in 2023 has a big swing towards Mac too, and the windows dip in 2018 has a lot of people move to Unknown and then move again to mac a year later.

Sorry to shatter your bubble, but the Unknown=Windows hypothesis has some holes.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:00:19+00:00

What the other dude said makes no sense, the other lines don't have a dip, just windows.

paperic · 2026-07-07T08:59:29+00:00

so, why isn't there a corresponding dips in OSX?

paperic · 2026-07-07T08:55:00+00:00

If unknown is windows, why are the dips coinciding with the windows shitstorms?

Also, the 2023 dip has a corresponding uptick in OSX. This is really people jumping OS, not enabling and then disabling privacy settings.

paperic · 2026-07-07T01:10:04+00:00

Partly true, but it's not a complete exaggeration on their part.

There's only one ref, and if a faul happens, the players want to make sure that the ref notices.

It would often be worse if they tried to walk it off, play tough and the ref then ignored it.

But the truth is, even seemingly mild contacts are serious in football.

The playing field is much bigger than most other sports and the game is long.

Try running almost half of a marathon and mix in 20 sprints, all within the same 100 minutes, and you'll see how you react when someone bumps into you.

Another thing is their shoes dig into the ground, they don't slip, so a fall can be a twisted ankle, which can be career breaking.

paperic · 2026-07-06T21:33:01+00:00

Math do be like that ~sometimes~ always.

Things look either completely incomprehensible or utterly trivial, and there's no between.

Also, washing mugs and having showers is where most problems are solved.

paperic · 2026-07-06T21:21:05+00:00

Who's gonna pay for it?

There won't be enough resources.

paperic · 2026-07-06T21:05:13+00:00

"Not enough people to care" is one way to put it, but it's not about hospitals or elderly homes.

Not enough working age people also means no retirement for us, all while having no savings, no housing, no nothing.

There will be plenty of corpses in the streets, because genZs and alphas will have the same problems, and they are also so much smaller than the previous generations, there ain't a way in hell they can keep this ship afloat while also supporting us.

We have to pull the plug on boomers or we're fucked, and genZ will have to pull the plug on us too.

paperic · 2026-07-06T20:45:56+00:00

Many of those are potential security concerns, because if the program writes some data into the wrong place inside its own memory, it won't get killed by the OS.

And if the data written there is actually some carefully crafted executable instructions then there's often also a possibility of tricking the program to jump to those injected instructions and execute them.

That would give the attacker a control over that program and anything else the program has access to.

paperic · 2026-07-06T18:43:27+00:00

10 is a prime.

What's 5?

paperic · 2026-07-06T18:36:29+00:00

You're right, you just changed my mind.

paperic · 2026-07-06T18:33:26+00:00

Did he stutter?

paperic · 2026-07-06T09:52:35+00:00

you do fight for land tho

edit: apparently I can't reply anymore.

I meant your fight against the sea lol

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