I wonder if this could be related to M1/2/3 Macs being worse for x86 system software development than the old Intel Macs. I work on ROS[1] which runs on x86 Linux platforms, but usually develop on a Mac. I may have to move to a Linux laptop soon because there's not an easy path (that I'm aware of) to running x86 ROS code on an M3: compiling the entire system for arm would be a huge headache while running x86 code in a Linux VM under Rosetta has a lot of unknowns.<p>Obviously my case is a bit of an outlier, but once you add up enough outliers you might see a real impact.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.ros.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.ros.org</a><p>Edit: I'm really going to miss the Mac. As much as I love the Linux CLI, Linux GUIs are a huge mess. A simple example: on MacOS you can use Emacs style keyboard shortcuts (^A, ^E, ^K, etc) to manipulate text in just about any text field in any app. AFAIK no such thing exist in Linux, which generally uses Windows style shortcuts (Home, End) that a much more limited. Another example is the ever-present "Help" menu in Mac apps that can be used to find/run other menu items.
For cloud programming, I find ChromeOs linux performance to be perfectly acceptable. The price penalty on Apple products is too high.<p>I also HATED the fact that I has to give Apple my credit card to get it to work. Apple treats your laptop like it owns it. I was unable to delete Itunes and had to sign Terms of Service that I didn't want.
There are always so many questions I have when I see numbers like these. One that is always in the forefront is how are people getting Linux on their computers?<p>4% is pretty impressive if the vast majority of users are actually installing Linux themselves (USB ISO, UEFI/BIOS). It might indicate that we're (possibly) reaching the upper limits of power (tech-savvy) users.<p>If the vast majority are from computers with Linux already pre-installed, that would be more amazing to me. It tells me that the entire Linux ecosystem is becoming more robust and self-supporting.
[dupe]<p>More discussion a few days ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576200">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576200</a><p>And yesterday: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600172">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600172</a>
This is a typo right: "macOS dominance declines”? Or clickbait maybe? It doesn’t seem like macOS from its lowest figure mentioned in the article (~15%) to its highest (~21%) dominates. It seems like the room for growth for both Linux & macOS is huge, I like both of these underdogs and wouldn’t bet against either. But why that headline?
I'm surprised Google doesn't come out with something akin to Chrome but that is a full Linux with the abiliy to load full applications on it... and something that can be installed from an ISO on old (or new) machines. What would be the downside of this?