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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS (www.webpronews.com)
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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Can we also have an open source surge against Android, with valid providers in all countries?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

We totally can, but not yet. Postmarket is trying hard AF.

The whole Voice/SMS/VoLTE/DataLTE side of things is proprietary, so they're reverse engineering it, but it's painfully slow. Probably once they crack it open, the industry will try to protect it behind encryption and DRM.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

I personally like Android

What we need is better AOSP

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 0 points 4 hours ago

The year of the Linux desktop isn't as interesting anymore. It all sort of works good enough for most people not to need to care now.

What we need is the year of the Linux phone. And it think that we will have to still wait a long time for it. And no, Google/Linux does not count.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

No, because the "surge" in market share is almost certainly driven not by the average user's love of open source software, but by the average user simply letting their laptop die as they switch to phones and tablets as their sole computing devices. Windows users aren't becoming Linux users. They are becoming Android users.