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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73% (gs.statcounter.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Magnolia_@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cinnamon can run Wayland in experimental mode. It's just an extra click during login. Mint also has direct support for flatpaks repositories, with flathub by default directly on the software center.

[–] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Any experience you can share on how complete and stable is that experimental session? I probably wouldn’t throw newbie on that

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

There's a bug where flatpaks seemingly disappear from the system the first time you run Wayland. But it resolves with a reboot. It happens too if you change back from Wayland to X11. Other than some minor glitches from very old software that hasn't seen an update in decades, it runs perfectly fine.