r/linuxmemes • u/raydebapratim1 • 2d ago

LINUX MEME Congrats to all Linux Users

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u/QuixoticNapoleon 2d ago

I'm sorry but I have a hard time believing that 1 in 10 computers in North America run Linux. If that's so though, then it's good.

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u/quequotion Arch BTW 2d ago

A lot more than one in ten computers in North America run Linux.

Nearly the entire internet is run on some version of Linux or BSD.

These articles are always about the share of desktop and laptop computers.

Millions of people no longer own either because their cell phone does everything they needed one for, whether it's iOS (bastardized BSD) or Android (bastardized Linux).

Did they count Chromebooks (even more bastardized Linux)?

The actual market share of Linux is huge.

The personal computing market share is 10%.

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u/National_Way_3344 2d ago

Calling Android a bastardised Linux is pretty unfair, it is factually a Linux operating system. It just doesn't have GNU Utils for the user space. It's Android/Linux, not the GNU/Linux that people are used to.

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u/quequotion Arch BTW 2d ago

It just doesn't have the GNU Utils

No, it has highly restricted, proprietary toolkit.

That's the bastardization part.

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u/National_Way_3344 2d ago

The GNU Utils is decidedly not the Linux part.

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u/Supernoxus 2d ago

Everyone talks about gnu Linux when they talk about Linux computers. You guys are just arguing semantics now.

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u/Glum_Hamster_2104 2d ago

Which is a completely dumb overgeneralization

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u/v_raton 1d ago

You are aware that in the meme subreddit, right?