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Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines (arstechnica.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17018864

I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn't know we already passed 4%.

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[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love Linux but I wish the BSDs weren’t getting left behind.

For the record, I really like macOS and Apple products as my “consumer” devices but all my side projects, web servers, routers, etc. run Linux. I ran FreeBSD for a long time until I got into containerization and Docker.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

People like Theo De Raadt might have had a fairly huge impact on killing BSD.

He might have alienated a lot of people from even considering bsd.

The Linux community also had a lot of help by vendors such as Suse and Redhat who had no problems implementing good ideas which were a bit toxic, but were available in windows. Commercial venders can make a massive difference (as well as government deployments).

The big problem has been people resistant to change

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 4 months ago

What was the controversy there? I’m not familiar with him.