182 million Linux desktop users!

I did some math, don't do math and Linux people :O

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[miyolinux]

As I choke back tears, take a deep breath, push my chest out, smile, and salute Master Torvalds, I'm proud to be one of the 182, 000, 000!!!

[prometheus]

Truth. I love Linux and will try to stay away from Windows as much as I can just because I prefer Linux and Windows frustrates me. Linux is NOT for everyone. It's not perfect but it is far better for me than anything else out there.

[alancrobertson]

Wow!! 182, 000, 000 people using Linux - that's impressive! That's the same population as France, Spain, Italy and Austria combined. Incredible statistics - just shows you the power of communities.

[eldarikus]

Bro, you’re 100% right. The problem is schools and unis… They buy into the ease of corporate support behind win and Mac, so they end up teaching on win and Mac. Figure out how to bring Linux to schools, and Linux will rule the world….

[johnsmith-gsqf]

I like this guy. He is the "Arnold Schwarzenegger" of Linux!

[MyAmazingUsername]

10:40 biggest truth of the whole video. "Nothing is good enough for the Linux community. They always find something to moan about." They moan that there is no good software for Linux. At the same time, they get angry if someone wants to charge money for good software on Linux. Absolutely zero self awareness.

[Muriz]

Anyone that likes to play with computers in general run Windows in the VMware for sure. Linux is a tool for certain things. I ask people around about PFsense example and they look at me like I am crazy. Linux is met for people that set up Pfsense, Next Claud, OPNWrt, and any other type of Servers. Who will sit down today that is an average consumer and set up Next Cloud when your phone ISP gives you Google One on their plan? Who will buy a case from AliExpress and build their own router?

Why would I change m oil in my yard when I pay 30 bucks for oil change plus they clean your car? What I am trying to say is that people like plug and play. No one will change the boot order because its to much work.

[DMSBrian]

The problem with ChromeOS, it's only "Linux" just like Android is "Linux", like sure it uses the kernel but it's an entirely different, tightly controlled proprietary ecosystem that doesn't play well with the free side of Linux at all, native Linux apps don't run on Android or ChromeOS without special compatibility tools, which are essentially VM's and most normies using ChromeOS don't even know they can use those.

[Bruces-Eclectic-World]

What @MiyoLinux said... LOL LOL LOL lol lol
LLAP

[Hiram]

I have 3 computers running Linux, do I count as 1 or 3 users?

[DisplayLine..]

I think this argument hinges a lot on how difficult it is to actually get your stuff supported on Linux. Because games and programs still get stuff like a color blind mode. Or German, French, hell Czech localization. So I do still think that it's companies being stupid rather than the Linux user base being small.

Also while yeah a Linux user probably has a Windows VM. But that's because they are the kind of people that had a game boy emulator on windows before they switched.

[EasyGameEh]

linux just targets wrong demographics. the thing is one should understand is the bell curve or normal distribution and pareto rule.

let's take a random person using a pc at home. for every person their usage scenario is distributed normally (or normal-like) around their core task. so for example a gamer maybe spends 60-70% of time gaming, 20-30% of time watching youtube or movies and tv shows, 5% surfing web and maybe 0-5% typing an occasional document. a content creator has a different distribution - let's say 60% of time editing, 30% of time researching and scripting and the rest for some recreational activities. an engineer, a developers or an artist has their own professional app that takes the majority of their pc-time. and then we have our normies be that your mother or some house wife - they surf web for 90% of their time and maybe do a document editing once or twice a year. whats important here a gamer, a content creator or an engineer or an artist will have the hardest time using linux just for the sole reason that their life revolves around some windows or mac specific apps - games, cad software, adobe suit etc. on the other hand a normie web dweller won't even see a difference between oses - they don't chnge hardware often and chrome in windows and chrome in linux are the same.

now, if we look at the population overall we'll see the same distribution of different types of users around different types of use cases. gamers, engineers and content creators are the absolute minority of the population. like i don't know any people that play games (and even if they did, pc gaming is just a fraction of gaming in general), though almost anyone uses a pc in some way. so what happens with linux community is they try to convert and preach their faith to the smallest part of pc users base while requiring the highest amount of hassle from them - oh you need to find an alternative to your pro software, oh you need to tinker with this compatibility layer, oh you'll get worse performance with fewer of games, oh you need to use this fringe driver, oh you need to change your hardware and so on and so forth.

and here comes the pareto rule - you only need to do 20% of work to get 80% of results. instead of begging few gamers to really go out of their way you just need give billions upon of billions of normies a very basic system for a very basic task. guess what, that's exactly what chrome os does. and it already beats you proper linux. the problem is these people don't choose their os, they run what they get. so it's not even about convincing them - it's about having an affordable offer of a ready to go hardware with linux.

[bertnijhof]

You math has one big error, most people in a house share the same computer. So in a developing world on average 6 persons in that house share the same computer. So divide all your numbers by 6.

[echelon]

ChromeOs user count as Linuxusers ? thats like saying: Windows users who use WSL are Linux users... its "KINDA" right but not really !!!

if we want Linux to be widley used it needs to become waaaay simpler and easier (even ubuntu is not "userfriendly" enough) show average joe just the terminal and he will turn on the spot !

[h.s]

When linux pass his biggest rival, the other unix-like system called MacOs be shure that linux will dominate the world 🌎, Apple pay enterprises and companies to optmize and port software to MacOs, while linux by itself contribute to all software arround the world without one buck . So when Apple start falling with his products cause 15 years ago apple was good cause it used to implement new technology first, but today having an apple product as an iphone for example it is more like buying an luxury device that will drop software support in some years and you will need to buy a newer device, while if you buy one galaxy s2 you can update your self to android 12 and has more than 10 years this device while an iphone 4s became a brick.

[newplayer]

The purpose of Windows is money, then Linux?
From market perspective, Linux will never beat Windows, Mac OS ever, due its nature.