Curious about the overlap. I wonder if its actually that much of what appears to be a consensus on Lemmy, or just a loud minority.
🤫 Don’t tell anyone, but I’ve never used Linux in my life.
😱 Shrieks in horror
You definitely have. At some point you would have used Linux. On an ATM or a restaurant menu screen or a dishwasher interface or in your car. Somewhere you definitely have at least once.
Neither. Windows & Android. I do have a Linux server running my home lab, and Linux on my Steam Deck, but they’re not daily drivers.
Stock android. My main PC is windows due to video editing software breaking constantly on update on Linux and some other software I had issues with. Dual-bootijg became too annoying. I have an old laptop running Mint. Work requires I use a Mac, unfortunately, as Linux would be great for my work pc
Ubuntu on this computer, SuSE on the other one. And e/os in the phone.
Same. Only that I don’t have the other device.
Linux on everything. Android on phone for bank apps etc.
Its been a few years since i bothered with custom roms.
GrapheneOS on my phone, FreeBSD on my desktop, and Fedora in a bhyve VM for steam and retroarch
If I had to guess, the distribution on Lemmy is probably:
- Uses Linux on at least one PC: majority (around 60%)
- Uses Linux as their primary OS: large minority (around a third)
- Uses a non-OEM OS on any phone: minority (around 10%)
- Uses a non-OEM OS on primary phone: small minority (around 3%)
To answer for myself:
- Primary PC: Arch, dual-boot with Windows 11, but I haven’t booted that in ages
- Secondary PC/tablet: Arch
- Tertiary PC (desktop): Debian
- Primary phone: LineageOS
- Experimental phone: Nura (formerly PostmarketOS)
- Ancient phone: a third-party build of old LineageOS (Android 9)
I suspect that is close to correct, but it would be difficult to get good metrics. I think your intuition is good though.
I use Linux on my computers since kernel 0.97. I use an Android phone, but just out of pure lazyness and disregard, and for nothing serious - I’m on the smallest flat I could get, and still use only 10% of it. Some years ago, I said “when i need a smartphone, I’ll build one”, and I actually built an Android-based system before I got my first smart phone.
yes, i use lineageos on my phone and slackware linux on my laptop, freebsd on my desktop.
The only non-free computer OS in my house is my partner’s laptop. My desktop and laptop both run Arch, and my work system runs Ubuntu (with an Arch VM getting an egpu and nvme ssd passed through to it). I also run Graphene on my personal phone.
Three computers: 2 Fedora, 1 Pop!_OS. I ran Graphene OS for years until recently when my phone died. Now I’m on iOS.
Linux on work and home computer. Thinking about switching to Mac for my work computer because IT in my company have turned into bitches.
Phone is iPhone.
3 RPiOS, 2 Bazzite PC, 2 Mint PC, 1 windows for tween daughter, 2 anroid phones one will stay that way (wife) one will probably be a fairphone e/os when it gets replaced.
I use a mix of UNIX and Linux but I’m stuck with Windows on my work issued laptop.
(The UNIX is MacOS 🤫)
Mint on PC, LineageOS for microG on phone. I also have a mini PC running Debian as a server.
