Comments by "Nicolae Crefelean" (@kneekoo) on "No. Linux does not have 4% marketshare. Hate to break it to ya." video.

Some of the Windows market share is just people using a Windows user agent because even today there are dumb websites that identify the OS based on the user agent and refuse to work if they don't see Windows or macOS. And probably most of the Unknown are also Linux because imagine a Windows or macOS hiding their user agent. Seriously, they either have no reason, or no clue how to do it. You can easily find Linux users who value privacy than anywhere else. And you know what? The Windows numbers are also inflated by the fact that a non-negligible number of Linux users also have Windows virtual machines for some Windows-only software. So I'll break it to you: Linux has a bigger market share than it seems, definitely bigger than 4%.
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@sortebill You don't want to see that? :)) People use what gets the job done for them, and while most of the time that's Windows, more and more people find Linux-based operating systems perfectly usable for them. Linux Mint is a solid choice for way more people than we could probably "guesstimate".
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@kpcraftster6580 Strong words there. They're also nonsense because it looks like you project your limited experience to everyone's. It's like you can't imagine people doing everything they need on a Linux-based operating system with little to no issues. That's real, and it's been real for many years.
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@kpcraftster6580 Oh, you're one of those people who parrots other people's comments and offer no substance to your claims. So what do you consider a miserable trainwreck, and why do you claim Linux is deliberately made worse. What is your experience? To offer some substance of my own, I'm an IT professional and I started working with Linux-based operating systems 24 years ago. But as many others in my generation, I started out with MS-DOS and then Windows. In my experience, all operating systems have serious shortcomings. For instance, Windows can't do, by design, important updates without requiring restarts. It also has a history of doing updates when it wants, and locking people out while applying them. It also has a history of deleting personal files, and invading the user's privacy. Its EULA also had a nasty paragraph that gave Microsoft the right to scan the user's computer for potentially pirated software and automatically report that to those in the right (themselves or their partners). NTFS is also an inferior file system when it comes to everyday use because it gets fragmented, something that barely happens on ext3 and ext4 - the filesystems used by most Linux distros. NTFS is bad for hard drives because fragmentation makes access to data even slower than the HDDs can perform in the first place, and it's also bad for SSDs because by not actively trying to store data in contiguous areas, NTFS requires periodical defragmentation. When it comes to Linux Mint, which I've used as a daily driver for 15 years (previously in dual-boot with Windows), its shortcomings were mostly inherited from Ubuntu, back when Mint based itself off of every single release, even non-LTS. Once the Mint developers switched to the LTS base, it became easier for them to polish their OS. Presently, Linux Mint's Update Manager allows you to update all the programs, compared to Windows, which only cares about Windows+Office updates, and those from the Microsoft Store. Everything else, you have to update manually in Windows. In Linux distros you just use the update manager to update everything. And if you need the latest and greatest of some software, like LibreOffice, Inkscape, OBS, etc, you can use Software Sources to add the official software repositories to your system, so you can automatically get updates for those programs. For almost all updates, there's no need to restart. And in the rare cases when there's a kernel update, Update Manager will tell you do restart as soon as possible. But that's it, there are no constant nags. Linux Mint itself comes with commonly used software, so the average user can do a lot after they install it - which is a lot more than what you can do with Windows. Clearly I left out a lot because this is the kind of conversation we'd rather have over a drink, not on YouTube. So I'm curious why you have such a negative view on this topic. What happened?
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@kpcraftster6580 What level of experience made you think that Linux is the miserable trainwreck deliberately made worse? I'm an IT professional with over 2 decades of experience with Linux, and I chose Linux Mint as my daily operating system since 2009. In many ways, it's better than Windows: its installation is faster, the pre-installed software covers common needs and you can start doing things with your PC right away, the Software Manager offers vastly more programs than the Windows Store, all the updates are done from a single program - the Update Manager -, you can add more software repositories to your system and the Update Manager will also take care of the updates from those (vs manual updates in Windows), data fragmentation on your storage devices is almost inexistent - thanks to a superior file system compared to NTFS -, printing and scanning has been made simple enough that you can find your devices auto-detected and functional, obviously there's no invasion of privacy like in Windows, etc. So instead of parroting back my comment, share your experience.
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@kpcraftster6580 I'm an IT professional with over 2 decades of experience with Linux, and I chose Linux Mint as my daily operating system since 2009. In many ways, it's better than Windows: its installation is faster, the pre-installed software covers common needs and you can start doing things with your PC right away, the Software Manager offers vastly more programs than the Windows Store, all the updates are done from a single program - the Update Manager -, you can add more software repositories to your system and the Update Manager will also take care of the updates from those (vs manual updates in Windows), data fragmentation on your storage devices is almost inexistent - thanks to a superior file system compared to NTFS -, printing and scanning has been made simple enough that you can find your devices auto-detected and functional, obviously there's no invasion of privacy like in Windows, etc. Share your experience.
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