cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/320628

https://redd.it/v8l8vi

These people keep bringing up “mArKeT sHaRE”

  1. Linux is free. How would it get market share?
  2. It’s quite difficult to get an accurate “market share” since user-agents can be faked.

EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.

  • whoami@lemmygrad.ml
    92·
    2 years ago

    There is a linuxmasterrace sub…it’s kind of dumb and there is some luke smith/distrotube fanbois there. Sometimes it has good content.

    I don’t think Microsoft would take the time to make anti-linux reddit accounts. MS contributes to linux, and utilizes Linux for things like WSL and (I believe) Azure.

    • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      2 years ago

      Yes on the Azure Servers they use their own Linux distro CBL-Mariner.

      Let me tell though, their “contributions” to the Kernel don’t mean much if you aren’t a Microsoft fanboy who uses their shit.

      I used to hang out on the linuxmasterrace sub all the time. It was pretty neat. Discussions about tech and linux. People helping each other. People posting pictures of their achievements, the occasional meme, etc. Then really suddenly it blew up for some reason and more people started streaming in and of course the place went to shit. They started posting cringy “I use arch btw.” memes. Eventually this and people simping for various YouTubers/Influencers made me leave.

      Years later I thought I’d check again, one of the first things I see with thousands of upvotes: A meme about “I use arch btw.”.

      I secretly hope that somewhere here on lemmy we can have a community that was like linuxmasterrace 6-7 years ago.

      • whoami@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’ll take your word for it re: the contributions to the kernel from MS

        But re:linuxmasterrace, just because it devolved to memes about arch linux doesn’t mean that MS is behind it. Arch is a popular distro, and that entire community (linuxmasterrace) isn’t there for discussion, it’s there for low effort posts and memes.

        • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          2 years ago

          Where am I saying that MS is behind it? All I’m saying is that in my experience linuxmasterrace used to be better than it is right now.

          • whoami@lemmygrad.ml
            1·
            2 years ago

            not you, the OP says “I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.”

      • whoami@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        I don’t know that there is something specifically wrong with him, it’s just that in my head there is a venn diagram where luke smith and DT viewers come together