Alpine Linux and OpenBSD are the only ones that are stock with this config from what I can tell

It should play a little Morrowind jingle on boot lol

Due to slow update cadence it’s not a great idea for a server exposed to the internet

I noticed it but it seemed to be proprietary and a kinda unknown, whats the deal with it?

yeah 😔

Some were really adamant about it being like android it’s very annoying

Kinda wish grapheneos had an x86 ChromeOS-esque build. If waydroid had better integration (e.g. lepton) it’d have been an easier sell. It’s on a terribly old laptop. I run different DEs on similar laptops and they didn’t like kde, cosmic, or gnome’s ui, very picky.

I kinda already am. I hate working on their windows problems

Bots: Does the author really believe these sites aren’t capable of detecting bots? I’m sure some slip through, but if not traffic were included in general, then Linux would be at a 90% share or higher. They just consume way more page traffic than a human ever could.

Only other possibility I can think of is llms made botting for small operators more accessible. Still leads to a lot more people running linux

Ignoring that the default browsers on many distros are seen as bot traffic, filtering the alleged bot traffic on Linux still results in around 7% of overall traffic, up from 4ish a year ago. It also doesn’t explain the giant leaps in downloads on many distros that correlate with the spike. It’s possible some organization set up a ton of computers with openclaw and a wide variety of distros on it I guess to influence opinion 🤷‍♀️

Also extremely biased source

Ignoring that the default browsers on many distros are seen as bot traffic, filtering the alleged bot traffic on Linux still results in around 7% of overall traffic, up from 4ish a year ago. It also doesn’t explain the giant leaps in downloads on many distros that correlate with the spike. It’s possible some organization set up a ton of computers with openclaw and a wide variety of distros on it I guess to influence opinion 🤷‍♀️

Also extremely biased source

what gpu does it use? bazzite has a wizard for downloading isos that trivializes the whole driver problem

You might be interested in Winboat if that’s the only thing keeping you

Fingers crossed for a Century of M$ Humiliation

Apparently Windows 11 sent out an EOL notice for October 2026 recently too. https://www.tech2geek.net/windows-11-24h2-support-ends-on-october-13-2026-heres-how-to-stay-protected/

Steam Machine also came out and sold around 20k machines in the USA. I also wouldn’t discount how good LLMs are at guiding people through “complicated” things like swapping to Linux. GPT for example suggests moving to Linux on first prompt after asking how to fix the windows 11 eol message. Seems like a perfect storm that led to a ton of people swapping to Linux for a wide variety of reasons.

I’ve noticed some pretty big spikes in download stats for certain distros like CachyOS and Bazzite, too. I’ve seen a lot of stories of people churning through Linux in the past and recently coming back to it because the software has matured so much and Windows and OSX are enshittifying.

I think datacenter use may be part of it- usage peaks at the middle of the working day and the highest peaks are on Monday. Its also possible a lot of companies related to AI swapped to Linux distros on workforce computers to reduce headaches in managing AI workloads. There is something that happened July 1st-6th that caused the trendline to accelerate, maybe Kimi K3 news and market shocks? But it should be noted Bazzite and CachyOS use peaked around this time as well.

I have a tens unit attached to my ass that has its voltage increase as bazzite gets more users

Okular

only certain monitors seem to do this, it worked fine on a dell monitor but on a msi oled monitor it doesnt. i noticed that mouse input from the special mouse port on my mobo also reliably wakes the monitor if i turn it on first and then click repeatedly. i just told my computer to save session on shutdown and had input turn on my computer in bios settings to avoid finicky things.

Tbh I probably wouldn’t have clicked the link if I hadn’t seen your comment, since I thought this was the original title of the video

its what it was originally but youtube has a way for vids to swap out less attractive titles automatically for alternate titles

i thought the sloptuber title was funny tbh. 5-10 fps over windows isnt exactly like, mind numbing, but its cool to see the tests