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
    1·
    3 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·
      3 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·
        3 years ago

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