This cannot be true. The dip in windows is corrolated with the increase in linux. Its just a measurement error
The dip in windows is corrolated with the increase in linux
Well, yeah? The users have to come from somewhere?
Its just a measurement error
Maybe
The dip in “others” correlated to the increase in Linux being correlated is not an issue. They need to add up to 100%, how do you expect one to increase with l without a decrease in the other?
1 out of the 3 total norwegian changed the OS after creating a lemmy account.
You laugh but I installed my first Linux distro after leaving reddit and coming here lol.
One must protect their liberty
We’re quite stupid and easy to influence.
Proof in point: I’ve gone from 0 to 3 Linux machines since joining Lemmy.
Someone send help, please??
Buy Raspberry Pis in bulk and make pointless SBC projects. It’s the only thing that will fulfill you.
Go Framework
Go Pine64
And grab their risc-v model
Or the arm version. They both are good for software freedom
Same here. Maybe that explains it, all linux users just run multiple systems. I dont know many people who use linux certainly not every third person I meet.
Source: æøå
I really want to and at the same time don’t want to know where your name comes from…
I’m thinking koffert straight away
No luggage no worries
I can send you an ISO file with more Tux.
It’s 3,68% in my country
Demand the government implement Linux to increase the funds available for social services
Strong social nets that allow people breathing room to allow more interest in how their computers work?
Is that where all the government computers run Ubuntu?
I’m a Norwegian Linux enthusiast and have never heard anything about the government using Ubuntu or Linux. Seems unlikely, from what I know. I know that within healthcare Windows is still widely used, even on the server side…
On the other hand, a lot of software for official services is being developed as open source now, so that’s at least a good step in the right direction. Example: https://github.com/navikt
Norwegian government loves windows, so yea, I really doubt it. (by it, I mean the government using Ubuntu thing)
Source: I used to work for the Norwegian government
edit: added explanation to “it”, so not to be as confusing to what I refered to.
You’re thinking of Switzerland
Ah, thanks! I knew it was somewhere.
This is reported as a percentage and that’s what is tripping people up here.
You are not seeing a drastic rise in Linux usage you are seeing a large decrease in the use of desktop computers.
Linux is increasing because the only ones left using desktops are Linux users.
Nice explanation but here is a graph with desktop percentage included (versus mobile plus tablet, but that isn’t shown)
How accurate are these measurements? I don’t know much about Norway, but if there was some massive roll-out of Linux in the governmental sector or their school system, surely there would be posts about it here?
Edit: I’m just having a hard time believing such high numbers without something like that.
Of all countries Norway might be among the last to switch to Linux.
Rich countries tend to go the apple way.
It might surprise you to learn that Apple is not dominating the market here, neither in phones or laptops.
When I think about it, I only really know one person with a Macbok and at work, Android is probably 2/3. Source: I’m the IT guy ordering phones for everybody.
Statcounter’s graph of iOS market share points to more than half 56% on Norway, so I bet if there is a need for replacing windows in Norway they will swing to apple instead of Linux.
It would be pure guessing, but I’m not so sure iOS preferance necessarily translates to MacOS preferance. Especially with todays prices and interest rates. Again, just me guessing.
I hope Windows keeps making dumb decisions so we can find out though!
What’s the source for this image?
I downloaded the data from globalstats statscounter
How do you make the graph? What type of graph is it?
So I can use it for browser marketshare and search engine marketshare.
You can download the .csv data from the website. Then make a stacked area chart in something like Excel/Google Sheets/Libreoffice Calc.
This graph gives me some Corona flashbacks.
I was confused why they used Swedish flag colors for a Norwegian graph
Well you see. 1905 never happened, and we are all under Sweden still. /s
The welfare of the brother peoples.
As a Dane i can say that maybe its because Scandinavians are generally pretty tech savvy and good with digitalisation. Also Scandinavians has a low tolerance for bullshit.
Also, a lot of Scandinavian libraries are switching their public desktop PCs to Linux.
Yup. It’s the reason why Denmark is the most developed country in North America as Canada and the United States worship the aristocrats’ bullshit too much.
Did you seriously just name Denmark a country in North America?!
Denmark shares a land border with Canada on Hans Island also France shares a maritime border with Canada.
You can’t seriously call them “countries in North America” though, that’s just ridiculous.
You reset their screensaver settings twice, you don’t get to do it a third time
This sounds valid. I wonder how many Scandinavians switched to Linux because of Windows 11.
This reminds me of Meetup.com dying almost everywhere except Chicago where the HQ is and everyone uses it.
They just started counting all my computers and virtual machines on which I run Arch and Nixos btw!
Good choices
Thanks! As I have been learning to love the Nix way of doing things my only regret is missing the great documentation of Arch. Hopefully we can have the best of both worlds in the future!
One extra Norwegian user in Statcounter’s biased and unrepresentative dataset started to use Linux, probably.
I don’t think it’s that biased and unrepresentative, as Pornhub’s usage statistics show about the same numbers for global Linux usage
Pornhub is legitimately one of the best sites for internet statistics around. It’s very widely visited and they actually put out the numbers. (Although, sadly, in my state of Virginia, they comply with identification requirements, so I only visit it with my VPN active, which then fucks up the stats.)
“Best sites”
