Mirko Brombin, the creator of Bottles

And also of the Singularity desktop environment, and behind cpak and Vanilla OS. Even with AI I don’t see where he gets the time and relevant knowledge, and I really wonder how buggy these are. I haven’t tried them though, and Bottles seems stable enough.

Well, good news!

Who knows! If it’s a stepping stone, then actual growth would trail it.

Yeah exactly, we can only speculate, rather than claiming definitively that it’s one or the other.

(I do think that, if Linux was the more popular option, and folks would notice that most of the things they’re running under Wine, that would remove one reason for them not to switch to Windows. But yes, it will also be reason for others to stay on Linux.)

Growing on Windows 11 is not helping promote freedom from proprietary software

I mean, it might. It could very well be a stepping stone to full Linux.

Fair, and also your point about comparing them to the other companies.

Yeah, about the most user-friendly way to use Wine.

A blanket ban of StatCounter-based stats at the very least, but I could live with a ban on all of the other ones too.

Side benefit is that everyone who prefers reading text, can read text, and everyone who wants to hear a robot read it, can have their own robot do that.

Haha, I’m mainly asking to ensure we’re spreading correct information here - I’m not interested in Hyprland for other reasons already :) Thanks!

And Hyprland isn’t otherwise controversial, right, other than being picked by DHH to use in Omarchy?

Yeah I know, I’d much sooner trust those numbers - but those are pretty good numbers! Desktop only of course, but still!

I think they gave him a Framework laptop so that he could ensure Omarchy works well on it, not money, right?

People should stop posting StatCounter, it’s so unreliable and noisy.

But I am surprised by the Cloudflare numbers, which are a lot more reliable, and still have Linux at ~5% worldwide, which is still higher than I thought! And even ~6.5% for the past two months, though I imagine that’s a seasonality effect - maybe Linux users in the northern hemisphere are more likely to use their computers at home during summer? :P

…on the notoriously unreliable Statcounter.

Ah gotcha, that is different indeed!

Didn’t Arch just have a major security issue due to their packages essentially being random guys too? (And I think the same thing could theoretically happen to most distributions?)

No, I was already convinced that relying on colour alone is insufficient. I still think they can be useful helpful if they don’t rely on colour alone.

True, there are exceptions (that’s why I keep saying most), and I think the pattern is more common on web than on desktop. (Though I think Gnome also compensates a bit with their boxed lists as an additional affordance.)

Note that I am 100% on your side in saying that there are annoying toggle boxes that are unclear. In your image, I can only tell that the second is probably on because the right-hand side is usually used for the on state in LTR locales. But they can be better, e.g. with an on/off label integrated. Ironically, GNOME has a toggle to enable this:

Well, I’d encourage you to keep an eye out; I think you’ll find that the majority of controls on the web behave as I described. And I think that’s a good thing, too: it’s far quicker and easier to be able to deduce behaviour from the control you’re handling at the moment, than having to scan the complete context. And especially if e.g. you’re visually impaired, the latter can be a major hassle.

(And indeed, the other controls you mention almost never apply instantly, so their behaviour is still predictable. When they do, they’ll often still have some other affordances to indicate that they do apply instantly.)