Using LinuxOS

ourjohn

Hi Folks, do you think the Linux open source operating system is getting any significant take up ?:D
I have been using Linux Mint for some years.
But wonder if applying for an energy supplier using my Linux powered PC might have gone awry, The cheap energy club site shows I have a switch in progress, months have passed ....


Thanks to the team at the club, for the return email today on my Stalled Switch topic:)

JJ_Egan

Answer no very small usage on PCs .
Switch in progress is not your OS as its in progress .

ourjohn

Thanks JJ,
I had guessed that Linux might be less popular now with more android in use on tablets and Phones.
Suits old hackers like me, though ;-)

JJ_Egan

PCs it never ever got a foothold just a toehold .

But has a huge takeup on servers and backend stuff .
Not forgetting huge number of Android and similiar OS users .

d123

ourjohn wrote: »

Hi Folks, do you think the Linux open source operating system is getting any significant take up ?:D
I have been using Linux Mint for some years.

It has a massive 2% market share

NetMarketShare.com

capital0ne

ourjohn wrote: »

Hi Folks, do you think the Linux open source operating system is getting any significant take up ?:D
I have been using Linux Mint for some years.
But wonder if applying for an energy supplier using my Linux powered PC might have gone awry, The cheap energy club site shows I have a switch in progress, months have passed ....

I've been using linux for 10+ years - great OS

Your stalled switch - if there is an issue its the browser not the OS

ourjohn

Regarding the stalled switch, yes, it could have been a browser problem, thanks capitalone...


I have Firefox and Opera in general use, as well as Vivaldi and Midori for access to apps that prefer them, Generally Firefox is my go-to but I might have used a different one "by mistake".



Still, I shall see what the nice people at the cheap energy club say once they have looked into it.

John_Gray

for %a in (2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024) do echo %a is the Year of Linux on the Desktop!

Stoke

I use linux as my daily drivers, various distros.

mancman3

ourjohn wrote: »

Thanks JJ,
I had guessed that Linux might be less popular now with more android in use on tablets and Phones.
Suits old hackers like me, though ;-)

Suits old hackers like you?

Firstly, Linux is a Kernel not an OS. Most servers are Linux based, most cloud services are Linux based, most of the internet is ran with open source software, all top 500 super computers are Linux based. Desktop Linux is growing everyday. Gaming on Linux since the introduction of vulkan/ vulkandx/ proton and steam play has catapulted lol.

Windows is a bag of !!!!. MS pushes updates to fix their updates lol. With a Linux distro you can have an uptime in the years, that's how stable it is.

googler

I've tried twice to install Linux-based systems on one or other of my PCs, and both times the frustrations grew so much that I abandoned the process.

Can't recall detail of the first, but most recently, I wanted to put Lubuntu on a secondary machine, install a secondary hard drive on it, then connect it to network with my primary (XP) machine.

Got the OS loaded onto a USB stick, got it loaded to the primary drive, but the process of defining, formatting and mounting the secondary drive was a faff - such as instruction to "open a command window", and type this;

"sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/diskD"

Result SHOULD be X, but none of the guides or instructions detail what you should do if the result is an error message, or Y or Z.

Eventually got there, but networking provided similar troubles; the guides say do X, Y and Z, and result T will happen. Again, I didn't get result T, and there's no explanation of what to follow if T does not result.

Windoze, for all its faults, just works when I do this kind of thing, and I don't need to faff with all the weird command-line stuff.