EDIT (2025-12-19T09:08Z): Whoops! I totally didn't see that this had already been posted to this community ^[2]^. I didn't mean to repost it. My bad!
::: spoiler References
- Type: Image. Title: "Traffic by Operating System". Publisher: ["Pornhub">"2025 YEAR IN REVIEW"]. Published: 2025-12-03. Accessed: 2025-12-16T23:00Z. URI: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2025-year-in-review.
- Location: §"Traffic by Operating System".
- Type: Post. Title: "Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year". Author: "maam" ("@maam@feddit.uk"). Publisher: ["sh.itjust.works">"Linux" ("!linux@programming.dev")]. Published: 2025-12-09T1;31:57Z. Accessed: 2025-12-19T09:10Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51299445. :::
55 Comments
snooting@wetshav.ing · 121 pts · 241d
Is this how the world finds out that it’s finally the year of the Linux desktop?
bigfondue@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 241d
towerful@programming.dev · 24 pts · 241d
Something about porn leading the way, something about DVDs winning, something about VHS winning.
All of that doesn't matter.
Because Linux desktop (in my experience, KDE Plasma and Wayland) along with distros that do sensible things (I use EndeavourOS btw) are just SO much better that Windows.
I only boot windows for software I have to run windows with fullscreen or GPU based software that doesn't exist on linux
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 241d
KDE Rocks
Go install it on old laptops, let people see and donate
towerful@programming.dev · 9 pts · 241d
Wtf is GNU/Linux? You mean SystemD/KDE?
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · -1 pts · 241d
Why do you think Wayland is better than x11?
Mostly asking from a user experience angle. I know Wayland supports some features x11 doesn’t. What I’ve read also makes x11’s code sound like a big mess, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for usability.
I’ve struggled a bit with getting games to run after moving to pop os 24.04 from 22.04 and I think the problems are Wayland related for much of it, but I haven’t tried other distros to rule out cosmic.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 241d
Wayland is a "new" windowing system so not all software support it, or look the same as on X11.
From what I understand, Wayland will support many new features but is under continuous development.
One of the examples of Wayland modernity is that Waydroid allows users to run Android apps but require Wayland to be able to. It's kind of in the name I suppose.
MalReynolds@piefed.social · 2 pts · 240d
Eh, we could talk about security and the ancientness of X11, but the fact is wayland is where the dev is happening , you may lag a bit with LTS kernels, but it'll get there.
Still wish I could cast an apps window to another machine (someone got a way with wayland) but otherwise with a modern kernel it significantly outperforms X. Give Bazzite a whirl, you'll see.
aloofPenguin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 240d
Just curious, what are these extra features that wayland supports but x11 doesn't?
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 239d
sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 240d
Hey man, he didn’t say any of that! Weird thing to bring up
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 2 pts · 240d
I was just asking because he explicitly said wayland (and not x11)
Is it a bad question to ask? I'm trying to learn and understand the reason why.
Some minor performance gains seem to be the tangible improvement thus far, but that assumes the application will be compatible with it. The rest is I hear is security and "active development" alongside the difficulties.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 239d
Security mostly. X11 was initial used with a central server and people logged on from clients the X11 system allows easily sending your display to another computer screen by IP address. Most distros turn off X11 forwarding, but some have it open. Its a way to share screens, but also a way a remote attacker could compromise your system and watch everything you do.
Wayland is a prototol. devs are using that protocol to build a new windowing GUI. It is secure by design
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 240d
You think they're pleasuring themselves at their desktops?
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 4 pts · 240d
You aren't?
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 240d
tbf I was being facetious. Something something ThinkPad
HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 240d
More like WankPad, amirite?
AstaKask@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 240d
Main Beat-off Station
Sims@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 241d
Yeah, I lost my girlfriend, so .. no judging please !
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 40 pts · 241d
Did you look at the last place you saw her?
Makeitstop@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 241d
That's what he's doing.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 241d
No, the Waffle House bathrooms are closed for cleaning
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 240d
You can use CTRL+R to search you command history. Much faster thst hitting the up arrow. I am sure she will turn up.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 241d
The Steam Deck can run a browser, right?
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 241d
Of course, why?
TacoSocks@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 240d
He implying people are using the steam deck to wank.
olympicyes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
They used to include Nintendo 3DS on the survey results. I can only think of one kind of PH user that would prefer Steam deck.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 240d
THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 240d
This is the dawning of the age of aquarius
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 241d
How much of that was furry porn?
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 7 pts · 240d
All of it.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 240d
gay furry porn
cm0002@programming.dev · 13 pts · 241d
Sorry guys, it was just me
/Jk
shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 241d
Yeah, from my Debian VPN.
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 241d
It doesn't work like that. They use the self-reported user agent from the web browser that is requesting the page.
Willy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 241d
cool and all but what % of people watch porn on their “big screen”? hard for me to remember that last time I wanked it at a desktop. shit, it might have been at work which would require windows.
olafurp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 238d
You can open the link and find out. It's 11%.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 240d
22.4% of 5% base, so in actuality a 1% increase. While the title is technically accurate, it's very misleading.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 240d
It's not at all misleading. That's how percantages work. It plainly says '+22.4%', which is fully factual and accurate. Your 'actual 1% increase' is a false statement. It's a 1 percentage point increase, which is completely separate from the regular percantage.
FishFace@piefed.social · 13 pts · 240d
A percentage increase is a relative increase. The thing you're thinking of would be described as "percentage points".
It's somewhat misleading to talk about a large percentage increase on a small base, though.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 240d
Yes, as I pointed out it is technically correct. Just a misleading first impression.
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 240d
I'm struggling to understand why you think the title is misleading. Could you elaborate on your rationale to help me understand? 🙂
Do you perhaps have an alternative title that you would suggest? Would you be satisfied by something like, for example, "Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic (from [e.g.] 5% to ~6%) over 2025"?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 240d
Sure! As is currently written, it gives the first impression (to me, at least) that the traffic share of Linux has jumped from x% to (x+22)%. Now I understand that this is subjective, but I believe that's how many people would read it at first glance as well.
Again, there's nothing technically inaccurate about it, but the 22% number there is imo distracting and tends to lead to misunderstandings. I would personally write it as "Pornhub sees Linux traffic share increase from 5% to 6% (22.4% increase) over 2025"
dakoriki@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 240d
Well it is an increase of 22,4 percent but at the same time an increase of 1 percentage point. So both are correct. But as we know bigger number more better so thats what we got
olafurp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 238d
Nah mate, it's very much exactly what it says. A ambiguous statement would be "Share of Linux devices on pornhub grew by 22.5%" which could be either in relative or absolute terms. Traffic increase is pretty much number of requests made from a Linux machine grew by 22.5%.
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
Weird tug of war
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 3 pts · 241d
Sorry everyone, that was me.
Wait no, it was Sims, he already fessed up. Yep totally him and not me.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 240d
How else do we get the data to train our Language and Vision models?
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 239d
Gooners' choice
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 241d
Lots of pirating going on...
p000l@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
Coomers! Assemble!
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 241d
Probably some data hoarders scraping that shit
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 241d
Would they identify as Linux though and not simply as Windows?
Damage@feddit.it · 2 pts · 240d
Depends on the default use agent for yt-dlp I guess
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 240d
Also sometimes websites have a fallback for systems with weaker DRM
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 240d
sounds likely, since alot of PH thats been sanatized ends up on non-PH sites.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 239d
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com · 1 pts · 239d
Phegan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 240d
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 241d