We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.
You’re free to whatever opinion you might have but it’s not a secret that Google used to change their search page to a more limited one if you were using Firefox.
Hence people created add-ons to change the User Agent to mimic Chrome when accessing Google.
I’m well aware of that. Browser and OS aren’t the same thing. Weird.
I had to check if I was alone on this…I wasn’t. First hit on a quick Google:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/z5sidv/me_every_time_a_web_page_doesnt_work_because/
So yeah, not alone… this is the hill I’m dying on😁
I’ve been daily driving Linux for over 3 years and don’t remember ever seeing it. And as a web developer I know the only way that would happen is if a shitty business decision mandated it.
So you are calling everyone out on this because you are a noobie.
Gonna second you in this one. My Manjaro box is what I run to as a gold standard if one of my families windows machines using Chrome fails to load something. It’s consistent, reliable and fast. What I think is missing from this conversation is: wired or wifi. One of the reasons the Linux machine is the yardstick is that it’s not using wifi; never had a first page load fail.
Slack on Linux however… Eesh. Never had an app so reluctant to launch.
Are you also a relatively new Linux user as the guy you are agreeing with has said he is? Because this absolutely happened and was a continuous annoyance in the 2000s.