This past weekend:

he northern part of America (Canada, US and the rest) is really keen on GNU/Linux, maybe for cultural and language reasons.

See above how GNU/Linux usage has grown there, set aside ChromeOS and Android, which also use Linux.

N the modest local market we buy almost everything. We pay with cash, we enjoy every moment of it unless it’s rainy, and we can return things if they’re faulty (provided we know the vendor and choose a reliable one based on reputation/pedigree/word of mouth).

One thing I learned over the years is that forming personal connections/relations with vendors doesn’t just give you “free stuff”, it also gives you useful friendships, sometimes “free advice”.

I may need to find gift/s in market today (Sunday Market), then make 5 or 6 cards for Rianne, so I don’t expect many articles to be published throughout the day. I always enjoy writing unique things, but then again… “s/n ratio” (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) matters. Besides, it’s a Sunday!

Lately we’ve seen lots of VERY good news regarding Free software, not just taking into account the rapid growth of GNU/Linux this summer. Maybe the Summer Vacation (long break for Western nations in particular) gives people time and incentive to explore GNU/Linux, resulting in usage surges; I’ve just told a friend that I don’t wanna ‘miss’ those surges due to stories I can tell ‘later’ (no rush) – mostly the personal stories about lawfare, for those aren’t so time-sensitive anyhow.

I will improve “s/n ratio” here and in other sites. Maybe I’ll make “s/n ratio” a sort of New Year’s Resolution as well, some time in late December. A quota system (like “no more than 10 posts in this site per day”) would be too prohibitive and restrictive because numbers alone don’t say much and not all posts are similar in length/importance.

“He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.” — Sun Tzu

T is 12 hours away from the Bournemouth match, the first league match for the coach (as coach of this particular team) and first official home game (even the friendlies were all away games thus far).

I am still watching closely some data related to adoption of GNU/Linux. It seems to be “winning” and this is the sort of moment we’ve waited for since decades ago.

When nations as large as China dump Microsoft/Windows the wind is in our sails.

have just taken a look at 12-month trends in Clownflare. It’s not hard to see how in the past year GNU/Linux steadily gained. Another year or two like this and the international average might show 10% or more for GNU/Linux.

In statCounter it already says 9% or more.

Orange = share of GNU/Linux.

spent a lot of time this morning looking through Cloudflare Radar to better understand OS trends worldwide.

Weekends are when most people do not work. This past weekend GNU/Linux was measured at over 8% but peaked at about 10%.

Cloudflare has vast data and given the scale of it all, it’s hard to dismiss as mere noise.

Crossposted from Tux Machines

Yesterday: GNU/Linux Reaches 10% “Market Share” in statCounter

It’s up some more today:

upported or corroborated by several other surveys of Web traffic, statCounter shows us that 10% might be exceeded some time soon (maybe by month’s end) for GNU/Linux, the foremost carrier of Software Freedom. Combined with ChromeOS, it’s already past and beyond 11%.

N 2000 when I first began using GNU/Linux as a “desktop” (not just laptop) it ran GNOME, KDE, and all sorts of simpler environments. It was good for development but harder to “use” if something more advanced was required that assumed you were a Windows user. The Web, games, and proprietary Office formats were barriers.

Now, 26 years later, GNU/Linux makes huge gains and the above barriers are mostly a thing is the past.

The progress was gradual; many attacks (FUD and ‘cancel culture’) slowed down this progress.