Well, good news!

Who knows! If it’s a stepping stone, then actual growth would trail it.

Yeah exactly, we can only speculate, rather than claiming definitively that it’s one or the other.

(I do think that, if Linux was the more popular option, and folks would notice that most of the things they’re running under Wine, that would remove one reason for them not to switch to Windows. But yes, it will also be reason for others to stay on Linux.)

Growing on Windows 11 is not helping promote freedom from proprietary software

I mean, it might. It could very well be a stepping stone to full Linux.

Fair, and also your point about comparing them to the other companies.

Yeah, about the most user-friendly way to use Wine.

A blanket ban of StatCounter-based stats at the very least, but I could live with a ban on all of the other ones too.

Side benefit is that everyone who prefers reading text, can read text, and everyone who wants to hear a robot read it, can have their own robot do that.

Haha, I’m mainly asking to ensure we’re spreading correct information here - I’m not interested in Hyprland for other reasons already :) Thanks!

And Hyprland isn’t otherwise controversial, right, other than being picked by DHH to use in Omarchy?

Yeah I know, I’d much sooner trust those numbers - but those are pretty good numbers! Desktop only of course, but still!

I think they gave him a Framework laptop so that he could ensure Omarchy works well on it, not money, right?

People should stop posting StatCounter, it’s so unreliable and noisy.

But I am surprised by the Cloudflare numbers, which are a lot more reliable, and still have Linux at ~5% worldwide, which is still higher than I thought! And even ~6.5% for the past two months, though I imagine that’s a seasonality effect - maybe Linux users in the northern hemisphere are more likely to use their computers at home during summer? :P

…on the notoriously unreliable Statcounter.

Ah gotcha, that is different indeed!

Ah, gotcha! Well, if it’s any consolation, clearly I didn’t click on the clickbaity headline to read the actual low-quality article :P

Didn’t Arch just have a major security issue due to their packages essentially being random guys too? (And I think the same thing could theoretically happen to most distributions?)

He’s not involved with Niri and AFAIK not with PaperWM either.

It does sound like SUSE mainly removed them due to issues specifically with how Deeping was packaged for SUSE. It’s likely that there were also issues with Fedora’s packaging (if that was also handled by upstream), but not necessarily that they were the same issues, so I get why they wouldn’t just blindly copy their decision.

(It also looks like Deepin’s working to correct the SUSE-specific issues, which is good to see.)

No, I was already convinced that relying on colour alone is insufficient. I still think they can be useful helpful if they don’t rely on colour alone.