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I wish for Linux to have a respectable marketshare of 20% (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz

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[–] best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Granted. 80% of the servers now use Windows, and you broke the internet.

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Granted.

Now everyone’s grandparents are calling you to help them get everything working the way it used to…

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Google forks Linux to make a mobile operating system, stripping out lots of familiar FOSS software and licensing requirements and replacing it with their own. Also it's written in java.

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

How unrealistic. That could never happen.

Sent from my Android device

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

What a miserable reality that would be

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

Granted but it's all chrome os

[–] DrunkDragon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Granted. Linux Monthly now has a 20% share of the computer related magazine market, both subscription and newsstand. While most readers report buying it for the in-depth Linux news, many suspect they’re actually buying it for the centerfold. Surveys indicate 93% of Linux Monthly don’t know what Linux is. I will let your imagination run wild about the subject of the centerfold.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Richard Stallman stretched out nude on the beach, no doubt.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Granted (literally IRL): 50%+ of Internet users are on mobile devices, 70%+ of those are running Android, and Android uses the Linux kernel, so Linux market share is already over 20%.

It's just that it's DRM'd and un-Free bastard Linux, not GNU.

Alternatively:

Granted: Android marketshare drops from 70% of the mobile market to <40% (so that the Linux marketshare across mobile+desktop no longer exceeds 20%), and fully-proprietary OSs take up the slack.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

The cloud now runs on macos servers

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Granted, but everyone changes their mind about Linux and Windows becomes superior

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

and ~~Windows~~ FreeBSD becomes superior