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  • BB_C@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧
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    2 months ago

    Ask yourself:

    • Where do these stats come from?
    • What do they actually measure?
    • How can the total number of all Desktop Linux users or devices be known to anyone?

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    The fact of the matter is, none of these stats actually measure the number of users. Most of them are just totally flawed guestimates based on what is often limited web analytics data collected by them.

    In fact, not even the developers of a single distribution can guess the number of people/devices using/running that specific distribution. A distribution like Debian for example has mirrors, and mirrors to some mirrors, and maybe even mirrors to some mirrors to some mirrors. So if Debian developers can’t possibly know the number of Debian users, do you think OP’s site knows the total number of Desktop Linux users?

    And let’s not get into the fact that the limited data they collect itself is not even reliable. View desktop site on your Android phone’s browser. Congratulations! Now you’re a desktop Linux user. No special user-agent spoofing add-on needed. You’re even running X11. Good choice not following the Wayland fad too soon.

  • BB_C@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•What are some good name suggestions for the rebranding of OpenSuse?
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    2 months ago

    I appreciate the attempt at comedy. But I have no problem with Alpine (other than the snail oldmalloc performance). I even contributed a port fix or two.

    The more interesting part that should have been read from my comment was that Chimera DOES NOT use GCC. Not to mention that it ships non-GNU coreutils that are usable by desktop users. While Alpine has it’s GNU coreutils package overriding busybox because that’s what most users would want. So that’s another GNU component any non-meme non-turbo-minimalist desktop user would be using on Alpine.

  • BB_C@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
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    2 months ago

    The freeze-the-world “stable distro” concept is an outdated meme, especially when it comes to desktop usage.

    In server usage, at least there is the idea of not breaking things by avoiding major version upgrades of used services/daemons. But even then, freezing the used services alone, while letting other system components have what may amount to thousands of fixes for some of them (and yes, a few bugs), is probably better, at least conceptually. But it’s admittedly not a well supported setup, unless you’re willing to basically maintain a distro yourself.

    And no, the “stable” distro maintainer is not going to magically backport all the “important” changes, unless backport means applying an almost full diff from a later version of the source package.

    (I actually mention this because I remember Debian doing this a long time ago with what I think was ffmpeg. lol.)

    Many desktop users know this.
    Upstream developers definitely know this, and occasionally write about it even.

    (I was a Debian user many moons ago. That was before systemd came to existence, or PulseAudio became default in any distro. Went from stable to testing to sid. Testing was the worst, even stability wise. Sid was the best for desktop usage. Then a sid freeze came because a stable release cycle was near. Went to a rolling-release distro and never looked back.)