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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈 (gs.statcounter.com)

submitted 7 months ago by markus99 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Linux has much better hardware support overall than Windows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah linux runs on 30+ year old hardware

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And brand new $12k CPUs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I think I saw somewhere that Windows still has scheduled bugs with high core count CPUs so you can legitimately get better performance from Linux because the scheduler has already been optimized for high core count servers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sure but at least from my experience if the desktop hardware doesn't support Windows we are already talking about a very obscure type of hardware that isn't going to be mass deployed to the general public that would affect this user agent statistic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The thing with Windows is that you are dependent on the Manufacture to make drivers for the device. Windows supports nothing out of the box. You can see this if you install Windows stock on a device with no internet. Granted that's very uncommon but depending on the manufacture for support is a mixed bag sometimes.

[–] pathief 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure but that's a really really narrow scope. Hardware is designed to work with Windows first. It's unfortunate but it is what it is and saying hardware support is bad on windows is misleading.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

I just know from experience with obscure hardware. You can't run Windows on your router and Windows 11 doesn't support serial connections.