LINUX MARKET SHARE IS ON THE RISE

THANK YOU BASED WINDOWS 10.

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that is actually pretty large adoption in 2 months, is there a way to view macos?

time to install gentoo

Year of the Linux Desktop is fast approaching lads

3% isn't a dream anymore

OP here. I actually moved to Linux because of windows 10.

I'm also thinking of trashing the windows VM altogether. Where should I look to virtualize OSX?

Nowhere
You have to build a hackintosh

>mfw bought linux stocks just in time

Dont. Virtual mac runs like hot dog shit. They purposely make it shifty if not on a mac

I've been thinking about dual booting OS X and Funtoo. I already have rEFInd set up and everything because I think it's lightyears ahead of GRUB. Just need to actually do it now.

And as far as linux I'm in the same boat as you. Last version of windows was XP, when I built a new PC for 3D rendering I figured "hey this could probably game too" and decided to buy W10. Big mistake. I outright bought it but I still get ads shoved in my face on my start menu and now with the anniversary edition they say ads can't be turned off. What is Microsoft thinking putting ads into a paid product? Forget the tracking, just the ads being built into the OS itself is unacceptable. I gave it a solid try for a few months but I'm on linux now.

Tonymacx86

But seriously OSX requires a decent amount of power - you'd be best just installing it on a partition or another drive.

>Tonymacx86
>you need a computer running 10.6.8 osx at least for this to work
why would i want a hackintosh if i own a mac

>not even 3%
top kek

In my case I have a mac but it's a very old one. Like late-07 Core 2 Duo black polycarbonate body old. I'd much rather run OS X on my beefy year-old desktop PC than the nearly decade old laptop.

how is this calculated? is it mobile? servers? desktop? what happened to the millions of mobile linux users or windows 10 users (as it now comes with ubuntu)

it's calculated by THIS
*unzips*

>1.79
>2.02
>2.33

Get ready for maximum winblows shitposting Sup Forums, this isn't going to be tolerated by Microdick corporation.

I thought it was already at maximum.

Hold me user

Remember when Mint became popular on Sup Forums for a while? The hack occurred right after it was a hot topic around.

Don't be surprise by anything.

H-hold me too!

Remember when it was found out the developers didn't care or know anything about security? Good times.

Ultra Windowsfag here. I remember when Freetards where claiming The Year of The Linux Desktop since 2005 when Vista came and Ubuntu was a new thing.

It's great that finally Linux broke the 2% marketshare. Too bad all those anti-Linux sites like LHB, Penguin Day and Piestar are already dead, it would be amazing to see the reactions.

Now I am here with you guys who are fucking paranoid and takes everything serious. It fucking sucks.

Anyway, congratz. And congratz to Ubuntu, I bet they still are the most popular distro.

No joke, I switched from 7 to ganoo salsh leenoox because of Windows 10. Debian Sid is absolute comfort.

Thanks brother. 5000 rands have been deposited in your account

>MARKET SHARE
Very misleading.
How is there a "market" for free as in freedom software?

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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Good thing linustechtips guy took over the development

Fuck you in the anus, leftist scum. The free market is the only real motivator of human life improvement, and non-profit organizations and projects are part of it. In a government-controlled scenario, neither Microsoft or freetards would be free to go on a quest for the best OS in their opinions using the methods and licenses they feel fit for it.

Many Libertarians actually support Linux since they don't believe in copyright (since it's not scarce, it can't be considered a property).

and we barely just hit 2% too. maybe this shit really is exponential.

I think 10% will be the real kicker here. that'll be when we're too big for devs to ignore, and desktop linux enters the mainstream consciousness.

>Many Libertarians actually support Linux since they don't believe in copyright
Linux is licensed under the GPL which _depends_ on copyright law.

there is no successful libertarian country
there is no successful libertarian politician
nobody gives a shit
kill yourself

>there is no successful libertarian country
Somalia

Medieval Iceland is looking at you, son

2017 year of the linux desktop!

Prepare your anus.

>Several friends already trying out Linux on their laptops because win 10 is disgusting
>They love it

It's definitely on an uptrend.
Microcock wants their walled garden and market share at the expense of their consumers. So fuck 'em.

>Failed state
>libertarian
Nice one, next you can post some pictures of American pot holes while talking about roads

they'll run into a host of issues, inevitably

I want you to talk to your friends and make absolutely god damn sure they understand that their participation is vital to the platform's continued improvement

>30% market share increase from May to July
How can Windows even compete?

Amusingly Somalia is actually a failed socialist state and the situation for the citizens there improved slightly when the government collapsed and the 10 or so warlords effectively took over.

Man I can't blame them. I'm basically keeping myself from wiping my windows 7 entirely and just dual booting.

It runs better, is less prone to Bullshit, and probably the best part is it is easy to make look good.

Ive given up trying to rice windows 7. Aero just makes it impossible imo. Firefox looks like dogs hit no matter what you do if using a non Aero custom theme.

I call 3% before the end of the year.

>born too late to explore the earth
>born too early to explore the galaxy
>born just in time for the year of the Linux desktop

I'm currently on Linux thanks to the Anniversary Update. I'm waiting out to see what else MS fucked up and if it's worth updating or leaving windows update disabled for good.

My only complaints with Linux are that keepass2 & keefox don't work, and that all music players are total shit. Other minor issues have been relatively easy to fix.

New pasta has born.

my laptop would turn itself randomly and it would install the update. also most of the updates would break my windows as it would be stuck at loading the login screen. fuck you microshit
i removed it completely and now i'm on lm 18 mate
since there is csgo for linux i'm not gonna install wangblows ever again

Fuck off GNU/faggot. Nobody gives a shit!

Will be using Ubuntu on my next build.

Ms has gone too far with the ads and tracking.

linux on android uses no gnu utilities

Amazing how you're so determined to say something like that yet you and others can't convince any of the others here to use Linux without unleashing autistic fools to constantly bash on other OSes. Eventually, it will all come crashing down on him and his friends when they get a full dose of harsh critics for using one specific Distribution OS soon.

It uses GCC to compile the kernel

Checkmate atheists

And even if they are using more then one...they'll get bored and turn around. Everyone comes back to Windows with their tail between their legs and feel the generic , but standard, comfort of Microsoft.

sure thing mate

don't mind us we're barely hitting 3% anyway right

the people, are, like _totally_ waking up to the corporate shenanigans that plague the lives of like a least a few million

There is nothing comforting about Microsoft.

Is it true that they made it impossible to disable those start menu ads? I've been too afraid to boot into windows to check.

You don't have anything to be afraid of.

Currently on Linux because Windows is trying to kill my hard drive. Every time it accesses a file it spins up the drive, and the instant the file is read it shuts off the hard drive. It ends up doing this many times per second when it gets really bad. And when it shuts it off, it makes that sound that hard drives make if you just pull the plug on the computer while it's running. A huge click then a whine. That can't be healthy for my drive. No idea what Win10's problem is. None of the linux distros I've tried do this. Neither do older versions of Windows. I'm happy on Linux but I don't like the thought of having Windows on here if it's trying to eat my hard drive and I can't bring myself to completely erase it after spending money on it (last version of windows was XP).

AFAIK you can remove the suggested apps on the start menu and the lock screen. What you can't disable is the lock screen, and now you can't set cortana to not log everything you do, your only option is to outright disable it. There are some other minor changes that may or may not cause an autistic reaction.

The other feature I was actually looking forward to, being able to use extensions on Edge, requires you to login to a MS account. What the fuck, MS. It's like you don't want me to use your OS.

That's what the glowing words said during the W10 upgrade.

The glowing words were wrong user.

They were wrong.

>mate

Yeah sure thing...a good thing too. Mate.

Is Linux the "Unknown" OS here?
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It's true. Well, you can remove them, but they can come back later at any time.

If you say so. Oh wait I forget this is Sup Forums you guys will run with anything. Microsoft is comforting whether you like it or not.

It's our year la.

I also love linux
i could browse and sort my gay/horse porn collection in public because there are no thumbnails. also all desktop environments looks like made by 12year old, so it doesnt really catch public eyes

>s-see guys linux has 2% m-market share! its g-great system!!

You... can't use extensions without signing into an account? Could they get any more obvious/retarded? Like I can almost understand limiting DX12 to W10, but limiting extensions to people who have accounts with you? Idk why but that seems way more scummy.

jewfu

>no thumbnails
wrong
>desktop environment made by 12 year olds
what are themes

disregard shill posts

obvious damage control

>Now I am here with you guys who are fucking paranoid and takes everything serious. It fucking sucks.
You don't have to stay here. You could always fuck off back to Sup Forums or Sup Forums where idiots take nothing seriously. Why remain where you don't fit in?

Lately I see a lot of people buying apple laptops. Seems like they abandon windows because windows is now the worst operating system.. oh wait.. wasn't it shit even before 10?

No. The same goes for live tiles, you can just unpin them all.

HOL UP, I actually tried Windows 10 and reverted but specifically remember something like this are you joking or did they seriously write this?

fist they ignore you
then they laugh a you
then they fight you
then you win

I think we're nearing the "fight" part y'all

You can't disable cortana either any more.

Microsoft has been fighting GNU and Linux for years, they've just had a relatively strong hold on the desktop market. They've been soundly beaten in basically every other area.

>changing region setting where Cortana isn't enabled by default
>NOT HAVING A MICROSOFT ACCOUNT
>Not looking for tutorials on how to disable it if you can't do the above

Of course you can't disable it if one or more of the conditions above are true because she won't be enabled in the first place.

Didn't receive the memo, huh? You're not allowed to not have a M$ account anymore. Your license is revoked otherwise.

Are you fucking kidding me? I have 2 PCs with the damn anniversary update installed and none of them are logged in via a Microsoft account.

They're still both activated with digital entitlement. Guess you didn't read the article that thoroughly, huh?

Also I'm not the only one

YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE

Dont. Even apple devs build hackintoshes.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Do they really?

Microsoft is supporting and making money off of Linux development.

Hell, you can host RHEL straight out of Azure now, and C# is open-source and cross-platform.

Red Hat and Canonical (Ubuntu) already joined Microsoft's .NET Foundation.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Many users do not understand the difference between the kernel, which is Linux, and the whole system, which they also call “Linux”. The ambiguous use of the name doesn't help people understand. These users often think that Linus Torvalds developed the whole operating system in 1991, with a bit of help.

Programmers generally know that Linux is a kernel. But since they have generally heard the whole system called “Linux” as well, they often envisage a history that would justify naming the whole system after the kernel. For example, many believe that once Linus Torvalds finished writing Linux, the kernel, its users looked around for other free software to go with it, and found that (for no particular reason) most everything necessary to make a Unix-like system was already available.

What they found was no accident—it was the not-quite-complete GNU system. The available free software added up to a complete system because the GNU Project had been working since 1984 to make one. In the The GNU Manifesto we set forth the goal of developing a free Unix-like system, called GNU. The Initial Announcement of the GNU Project also outlines some of the original plans for the GNU system. By the time Linux was started, GNU was almost finished.

Most free software projects have the goal of developing a particular program for a particular job. For example, Linus Torvalds set out to write a Unix-like kernel (Linux); Donald Knuth set out to write a text formatter (TeX); Bob Scheifler set out to develop a window system (the X Window System). It's natural to measure the contribution of this kind of project by specific programs that came from the project.

If we tried to measure the GNU Project's contribution in this way, what would we conclude? One CD-ROM vendor found that in their “Linux distribution”, GNU software was the largest single contingent, around 28% of the total source code, and this included some of the essential major components without which there could be no system. Linux itself was about 3%. (The proportions in 2008 are similar: in the “main” repository of gNewSense, Linux is 1.5% and GNU packages are 15%.) So if you were going to pick a name for the system based on who wrote the programs in the system, the most appropriate single choice would be “GNU”.

But that is not the deepest way to consider the question. The GNU Project was not, is not, a project to develop specific software packages. It was not a project to develop a C compiler, although we did that. It was not a project to develop a text editor, although we developed one. The GNU Project set out to develop a complete free Unix-like system: GNU.

Many people have made major contributions to the free software in the system, and they all deserve credit for their software. But the reason it is an integrated system—and not just a collection of useful programs—is because the GNU Project set out to make it one. We made a list of the programs needed to make a complete free system, and we systematically found, wrote, or found people to write everything on the list. We wrote essential but unexciting (1) components because you can't have a system without them. Some of our system components, the programming tools, became popular on their own among programmers, but we wrote many components that are not tools (2). We even developed a chess game, GNU Chess, because a complete system needs games too.

By the early 90s we had put together the whole system aside from the kernel. We had also started a kernel, the GNU Hurd, which runs on top of Mach. Developing this kernel has been a lot harder than we expected; the GNU Hurd started working reliably in 2001, but it is a long way from being ready for people to use in general.

Fortunately, we didn't have to wait for the Hurd, because of Linux. Once Torvalds freed Linux in 1992, it fit into the last major gap in the GNU system. People could then combine Linux with the GNU system to make a complete free system: a Linux-based version of the GNU system; the GNU/Linux system, for short.

Making them work well together was not a trivial job. Some GNU components(3) needed substantial change to work with Linux. Integrating a complete system as a distribution that would work “out of the box” was a big job, too. It required addressing the issue of how to install and boot the system—a problem we had not tackled, because we hadn't yet reached that point. Thus, the people who developed the various system distributions did a lot of essential work. But it was work that, in the nature of things, was surely going to be done by someone.

The GNU Project supports GNU/Linux systems as well as the GNU system. The FSF funded the rewriting of the Linux-related extensions to the GNU C library, so that now they are well integrated, and the newest GNU/Linux systems use the current library release with no changes. The FSF also funded an early stage of the development of Debian GNU/Linux.

Today there are many different variants of the GNU/Linux system (often called “distros”). Most of them include non-free software—their developers follow the philosophy associated with Linux rather than that of GNU. But there are also completely free GNU/Linux distros. The FSF supports computer facilities for two of these distributions, Ututo and gNewSense.

Making a free GNU/Linux distribution is not just a matter of eliminating various non-free programs. Nowadays, the usual version of Linux contains non-free programs too. These programs are intended to be loaded into I/O devices when the system starts, and they are included, as long series of numbers, in the "source code" of Linux. Thus, maintaining free GNU/Linux distributions now entails maintaining a free version of Linux too.

Whether you use GNU/Linux or not, please don't confuse the public by using the name “Linux” ambiguously. Linux is the kernel, one of the essential major components of the system. The system as a whole is basically the GNU system, with Linux added. When you're talking about this combination, please call it “GNU/Linux”.

And this is why the OS is called GNU (NOT GNU/LINUX, NOT LINUX).

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If you want to make a link on “GNU/Linux” for further reference, this page and gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html are good choices. If you mention Linux, the kernel, and want to add a link for further reference, foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Linux is a good URL to use.

Addendum: Aside from GNU, one other project has independently produced a free Unix-like operating system. This system is known as BSD, and it was developed at UC Berkeley. It was non-free in the 80s, but became free in the early 90s. A free operating system that exists today(4) is almost certainly either a variant of the GNU system, or a kind of BSD system.

People sometimes ask whether BSD too is a version of GNU, like GNU/Linux. The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them, but the code had little overlap with GNU. BSD systems today use some GNU programs, just as the GNU system and its variants use some BSD programs; however, taken as wholes, they are two different systems that evolved separately. The BSD developers did not write a kernel and add it to the GNU system, and a name like GNU/BSD would not fit the situation.(5)

>They've been soundly beaten in basically every other area.
You must be confused.

Let me ask you this:
What is the most profitable Linux company?

Rhetorical question. It's Red Hat at about $50 million per quarter.

Last quarter, Microsoft made around 100x that.

Did it come from consumer desktop OS purchases?

Fuck no.

It's server cloud licensing and support, as well as cloud hosting via Azure.

I'm honestly curious as to where this ALL SERVERS ARE LINUX meme came from.

People fail to realize that nearly every small/midsize company has an Active Directory domain controller and an Exchange mail server, at the very least.

Unfortunately, there's no reliable way to really measure server market share.

Nah. Google recommends Clang now.

>look at me, I implemented easy shit and totally deserve to share the name in what is undoubtedly the hardest part of an operating system

Uh. I mean they said something along the lines of
>Don't worry.
>All your files are right where you left them.
They were just white letters on a black background but they faded each sentence in and out. Not sure if that's what you're talking about though.

Now time to sit back and watch the malware flood in. This shit's going to be Android 2.0.

Okay I'll give you that they've done exceptionally well in cloud based solutions but Azure also runs on GNU/Linux now so even there they've had to concede to GNU/Linux. Microsoft's OS business is spiraling the drain and Microsoft is diversifying to keep from becoming irrelevant like AOL or Yahoo.

Wouldn't surprise me. Probably easier to dual boot on a hackintosh, and if you're a dev OS X is not the place to be. Compile times really suffer on OS X even on the same hardware.
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there are two kinds of start menu ads: those "suggestions" and sponsored/demo apps.
you can only disable the former.