Is this how the world finds out that it’s finally the year of the Linux desktop?
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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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!
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- 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.
We've got the gooners, we've won!!!
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
KDE Rocks
Go install it on old laptops, let people see and donate
Wtf is GNU/Linux? You mean SystemD/KDE?
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You think they're pleasuring themselves at their desktops?
You aren't?
tbf I was being facetious. Something something ThinkPad
More like WankPad, amirite?
Main Beat-off Station
The Steam Deck can run a browser, right?
Of course, why?
He implying people are using the steam deck to wank.
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.
THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP.
This is the dawning of the age of aquarius
How much of that was furry porn?
gay furry porn
Sorry guys, it was just me
/Jk
Yeah, from my Debian VPN.
It doesn't work like that. They use the self-reported user agent from the web browser that is requesting the page.
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.
You can open the link and find out. It's 11%.
22.4% of 5% base, so in actuality a 1% increase. While the title is technically accurate, it's very misleading.
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.
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.
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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
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"?
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"
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%.
How else do we get the data to train our Language and Vision models?
Sorry everyone, that was me.
Wait no, it was Sims, he already fessed up. Yep totally him and not me.
Weird tug of war
Gooners' choice
Lots of pirating going on...
Probably some data hoarders scraping that shit
Would they identify as Linux though and not simply as Windows?
Depends on the default use agent for yt-dlp I guess
Also sometimes websites have a fallback for systems with weaker DRM
sounds likely, since alot of PH thats been sanatized ends up on non-PH sites.
It's the year of the Linux desktop, baby. Been waiting 40 years for it. And will be waiting 40 more
Coomers! Assemble!
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