You know, I do wonder how many of these statistics are influenced by Linux users tendancy to use adblockers and block tracking. Linux could be more popular than it looks.
Also, they should tell us how much of that increase is due to the Steam Deck. :P
Only a very tiny number of Linux users spoof their browser’s user agent, which these statistics are based on.
The issue is whether the data is collected by a known third party tracker domain which would be blocked by an adblocker
Large sites usually have their own first-party analytics. Often they don’t want third parties to be in possession of detailed analytics data.
Pornhub mentions that they use Google Analytics about halfway down the page in the section “Proportion of Female Visitors”
That’s interesting… It means their demographic data is coming from users’ Google accounts.
They likely have a contract with Google to control how their data can be used.
Unfortunately, due to the constant willful or untested shenanigans of various website I have set up all my system’s Firefox profiles to spoof by default its user agent (and other JavaScript properties) as Windows 11, x86_64, Firefox LTS (even if I use latest, Aurora or beta). Some blantant recent example: YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix
Doing so has helped me and many friends/family I switched to a flavor of Linux (mostly Mint, but sometimes LMDE or Ubuntu or specific requirements/demands) avoid numerous dumb problems.
Even on mobile sometimes UX breaking issues creep up.
True, btw I am on Windows 10 Chrome 😉
Found the closet Arch user
An adblocker does not hide the os
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How many Steam deck users are looking up porn?
At least one!
I hope you dock it first or you’re going to end up with a sprained wrist and a sticky deck.
… Don’t kink shame me
Is it comfortable to use with a single hand? Asking for a friend.
Nah, it’s pretty heavy
They meant the steam deck
New-to-me technology never feels broken in and truly “mine” until that first wack
I missed the “PornHub” in the corner at first. Maybe I won’t share this with colleagues…
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Agreed. PornHub is probably a pretty solid representation of all web traffic. --Todo: insert obvious joke here–.
Porn sites have been at the forefront of nearly all online content innovation.
That is true.
So what we can see is that Linux user watch 31% more porn?
Dozens of us! Dozens!
That’s my go to comment for most posts here 🥲
I’m doing my part!
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I hate when people say “oh we had 100% growth!” Ignoring the fact they went from 4 to 8 clients. Meanwhile the one that only shows 0.5% growth considers 8 people a rounding error.
There’s liars, damn liars and statisticians.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/
Okay, so here’s some more easily interpreted numbers. In addition to having the largest change in traffic share relative to its previous share, Linux actually had the largest change in actual traffic share. It was just BARELY above Mac OS. If more significant digits were allowed here, Linux rose 0.0085 while Mac OS rose 0.0082.
OS 2023 Share 2022 Share Share Change Windows 0.632 0.647 -0.015 Mac OS 0.292 0.284 0.008 Linux 0.036 0.027 0.009 Chrome Book 0.029 0.026 0.003 Other 0.011 Unknown* 0.005* 2022 percentages computed as:
share_2022 = share_2023 / ( 1 + relative_percent_change )and percent change computed as:
absolute_percent_change = share_2023 - share_2022* The relative percent change for “other” is not reported in the graphic. There is a remainder of 0.005 in the Share Change which is, presumably, attributable to change in the “other” category.
Last year’s results
I just found last year’s results. It looks like my math bears out, though it appears that they rounded differently.
Notably, last year’s changes were very different.
OS 2022 Share 2021 Share Share Change Windows 0.647 0.646 0.001 Mac OS 0.284 0.273 0.011 Linux 0.028 0.028 0.000** Chrome Book 0.025 0.025 0.000** Other 0.011 Unknown*** 0.015*** ** Linux and Chrome Book’s absolute change was less than 0.0005.
*** As with 2023, the percentage change for “other” is not reported in the graphic. There is a remainder of 0.012 in the Share Change which is, presumably, attributable to change in the “other” category. This seems large, though, given that the total traffic share for “other” is only 0.016. That would imply a change from 0.001 to 0.012. Looking at the 2021 numbers this doesn’t appear to be correct.
I hate when people respond to a post with a little anecdote that is completely irrelevant to the original post.
I’ll feed the troll… it’s very relevant with the bottom part of the graphic. It’s touting that it’s got the biggest increase of traffic change at ~32%, however overall it still only has a 3.2% share. That ties in exactly what what I’m stating and the xkcd that was posted too. There was nothing anecdotal or that was irrelevant in my post.
Ignoring the fact they went from 4 to 8 clients.
You think the 3.2% is on the order of single digits of machines? You think 3.2% market share is 8 people?
Obviously you don’t. It’s 10s of thousands of machines and you exaggerated the actual situation so far it no longer made any sense.
If we combine that with the stat of 91.3% mobile users vs. 7.2% desktop users (ignoring the 1.5% tablets), that means:
93.8% of all Pornhub visitors used an OS based on BSD or Linux.
( 100 x 0.913 x 0.998 + 100 x 0.072 x 0.368 ).2 to 3.6%
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Literally all Steam Decks
Praise Gaben
That is what we like to call a “gateway drug”, first they try out an Android, then “just a taste” of Steam Deck, and next thing you know they’re installing arch btw on their grandparents’ computers
Next thing you know they are looking at packages compile in Gentoo on a Friday night.
Next thing Gentoo is too easy so they spend a week setting up Linux From Scratch
Linux is cumming my friends. 🥳
Is it that Linux is getting popular, or that most people don’t buy new computers anymore now that their phone does everything they used it for, so it’s only the enthusiasts still buying?
That’s an interesting thought. I’ve wondered this about Chrome’s market share in browsers too. How much of it is just that so much traffic is now from phones where, even if you have another browser installed, apps open links in embedded Chrome web views.
Unless the number of GNU/Linux maintainers also matches the growing userbase, we’re heading towards a world of pain.
Devs overrun by unhelpful bug reports, scammers and malware abound, forums stretched beyond capacity by the exact same queries.
If PC Linux can be monetized, it will be.
There are dozens of us!
The three linux users finally found a friend to masturbate with. Leading to a 33% increase in linux user visit.
Nah, it was all me. All of it.
Just found another PC in the dump and installed Linux on it. That makes 1,984
Year of the Steamdeck. Praise Gaben!
