This is why noone uses linux.

Low effort bait

What makes you think that usage is a metric?

>>105742372
gamergate was actually the cause of the competency crisis, not 2008
2008 and 2001 were setting up what was to come but yids could have never predicted gamergate and then it made them seethe so hard they turned society upside down and brown

>>105742356
low effort cope

>>105742348 (OP)
linux has a higher market share than mac os

>>105742390
in india**

>>105742348 (OP)
Cool animals > trash corporate design

>>105742420
cringe

>>105742348 (OP)
GNU/SOVL

>>105742348 (OP)
Correct. Who would want to look line an out of touch boomer incel?

>>105742372
Linux looks amateurish.
And it is.

People like nice things.

>>105742656
t. itoddler

>>105742348 (OP)
imagine the smell of the person that composed this picture

>>105742390
K E K.

steam data does show that linux is more popular for games, and we know for a fact android is far more popular than apple.
it's hard to get actual data on linux desktop because a lot of people on linux are privacy freaks and FOSS doesn't do data harvesting.

>>105742418
>>105744188
the linux desktop stats also get muddy because chromeOS and steamOS are technically desktop machines too.

>>105742348 (OP)
based noone

sage

>>105744042
OH NO NO NO NO NO

>>105742348 (OP)
*no one

>>105742348 (OP)
Soul, vs corporate bland convenience for normies
One is made to the developers taste, other is like a prostitute begging for acceptance

>>105744210
heehee

>>105742348 (OP)
If your statement were true, your propaganda would be unnecessary.

Microsoft Clippy.

>>105746096
what did he mean by this

>>105746196
he wants to be your friend. do NOT bully him

>>105744042
The last time I called this shitty paint job out I got rewarded with an instant month vacation. Genuinely, jay, stop posting. Somebody on this board is insane enough to invite you to a pvp Minecraft server if you don’t

>>105746413
>everyone i dont like is jay

>>105746487
yes

Dont forget this cutie!

>>105742656
Linux is a kernel, and it's offical mascot Tux isn't even pictured.

>>105742348 (OP)
I know fewer people who use macos (0)

>>105742348 (OP)
Regression

>>105742348 (OP)
love loonix, simple as

>>105748709
still looks like two dudes kissing

>>105748740
We see what we wish to see.

>>105748709
this is already fixed/

>>105748772
Sure it is. Whatever, macOS totally isn't fake and gay.

>>105748709
T R A N S I T I O N E D

>>105748872
https://512pixels.net/2025/06/finder-icon-fixed/

>>105742348 (OP)
DUDE
CIRCLES

>>105742348 (OP)
The Linux iconography is just more fun. The Apple iconography has become the bland image of clueless corporate structure that dictates "mandatory fun day".

Remember when computers were fun. Remember what they took from you.

>>105748709
It's like they changed it for the sake of changing it without anyone taking a step back and asking: Wait, does this convey the same image of a face after the change or does it just like like a blurry square.

What's so hard about it? Install Linux, choose KDE if you like the Windows™ aesthetic or Gnome if you like the macOS™ aesthetic and feet. Then use their respective default apps. What's so fucking complicated about that?

>>105742348 (OP)
But more people use software from the left than from the right...

>>105749331
and?

>>105752034
>people

>>105752034
>software

>>105742348 (OP)
soul vs corposlop

>>105754463
>toddler vs not toddlers
tixed

>>105742348 (OP)
>soul vs soulless
next one please

>>105742656
desktop linux has a mental illness problem that needs to be dealt with

>>105755256
maybe you shouldn't use gnome if you don't like mentally ill people
bigot

I don't care.

>>105755249
>toddlers vs not toddlers
tixed

Gimp is ass, wish my computer had space for photoshop

>>105755696
>wish my computer had space for photoshop
Just buy a new SSD

>>105742348 (OP)
>the day you realize 99% of linux users are pedophiles

I always wondered why anyone who isn't working in a data center would ever use Linux. It all makes sense now.

left: soul, friendly, comfy, cute
right: soulless, corporate, slop, evil

>>105756105
>left: toddlers and jeets
>right: white men

>>105756270
>KekOS
>men
sales stacies...

>>105756325
>jeets
>men
saaaarrrs...

>>105742348 (OP)
>iToddler moment

>>105742348 (OP)
based noone

The year of the Linux desktop exists, it's called WSL, Chromebook and Android. No one wants Gnomeshit.

>>105756342
DILATE THIS

What's incredible is how much effort was put into making such garbage

>>105760237
seethe

BTW you can run all these apps on windows

>>105749318
>use-case for listening to users
Incredible, a company that takes user feedback.

>>105760548
FREETODDLERS BTFO

>>105742348 (OP)
>This is why noone uses linux.
no, this is why

>>105742348 (OP)
what about the sexy fox mascot for linux

>>105742348 (OP)
SOUL | soulless

>>105742588
fag mascots

humans are retarded by nature so naturally all operating systems designed by humans are defacto retarded too. there isn't a single good operating system prove me wrong you can't.

>>105742348 (OP)
why do you care so much?

>>105742348 (OP)
Furfaggotry vs decency

>>105760896
what in the goblina is that unholy blob

human | corporate

>>105742348 (OP)
>Browsing Hacker News
>Adventures in KidKiller
>Debugging FatDick
>Programming in Labadabadabada
Programmers are invariably 12 year old 2010-Era Redditors or Corporate Memphis people. I’ve never met one with any aesthetic sense.
>>105742372
It’s the only metric.

>>105742348 (OP)
>>105762170
Let me break it down for you.

The overwhelming majority of people do not consciously make decisions about what software they use, or any of their other computing habits. They use what is given to them. That's it.

Everyone who is remotely passionate or concerned about Comp Sci and IT-related issues has severe, crippling autism, including you.

>>105760896
>noone

>>105742348 (OP)
I love jay threads

>>105762689
i love schizo posts

>this is why normalfags don't use linux
ftfy


(adds up to more than 100% because of people who use more than 1 OS

>>105744042
>Still posting a "statistic" that tracks "hits" and gets its data from user agents
You do realize that it's mostly just tracking Pajeet phone browsers that need to spoof their user agent to avoid blacklisting, right?
Hell look at the graph and you can quite literally see changes in the Unknown statistic (aka a browser useragent that is unrecognized, aka some jeet phonebrowser) being mirrored in the Windows statistic.

I was hoping this thread would have a healthy discussion about the fact that Linux has an abundance of developers but not many enough designers, and what could be done to address this?

I'm a non-gnome/kde plasma DE enjoyer and even I recoil at some of the design/art choices made for otherwise really good software. I then immiedtly install a theme and forget all about the nasty default look until some old GDK app decides not to use my theme.

I know some people call it "SOVL", but let's be real. "Dusty" is the most apt word for this. And it is jarring to see when you leave the clean and manicured gnome and kde spaces.

>>105762689
meds

>>105752018
something breaks
well, no worries, i can just go into the settings and - oh, there's no graphical setting for that. let's google it. hmm, every answer suggests copy and pasting a random leftist-meme abortion of a command into the terminal and praying that fixes it.
what does it do? well, it either fixes it... or it doesn't.
what if it does something i don't want? well, tough. it's roll the dice or have a broken system.
what if i want to undo it? well that's easy, all i have to do is read the incomprehensible textwall, work out what it does, and then write up a similar textwall undoing everything i've just done. wow, this is so much easier than in windows where i'd just click a button to put the setting back the way it was before.

>>105742588
Aryan mascots.

>>105749318
Hmm, with all the recent fixes for that liquid ass new UI (adjusted transparency on Beta 2 iOS), i like it more now.
picrel left to right - iOS 26 Beta 1 / Beta 2

GIMP is extremely based, thoughbeit