Is a laptop a desktop or a tablet, or PI
Not important
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This is called âEthical Piracyâ and
This is called âEthically Piratedâ iOS. 
Just kidding⌠
Except laptop, I never bought a branded PC. I always like assembled hardware. Btw, you should open a computer museum at your place. Please donât mind. Actually, those vintage hardwares are really quite a sight and finding a working one is just like finding an Apollo 13 footage. 
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The site separates desktop, tablet, mobile.
It does not mention laptop or pi
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Something in between, I think.
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Has OS X (aka MacOS) at 15.4% which sounds more realistic to me⌠Thatâs all operating systems (desktop and mobile)âŚ
It doesnât account for the server marketâŚ
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So Australia is 66% Unix derived or Unix-like
33% Microsoft
for non-server systems
but
that 66% is not all open source, because some is BSD derived and the bsd licence allows proprietary mixes.
I imagine servers would be a higher percentage Unix derived, but I remember you saying there are still lots of Windows servers.
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We do better in france
38 % android (could be considered linux ?)
1.3 Linux
When trying to ^sell^ the idea of linux to clients I usually lump phones, tablets, mac under the same group ⌠saying windows only has 40 % of the computer market, they already have linux on the phone they carry, tablet, car they drive. Tax office, police, google all use linux. So windows is limited, old stuff, no longer the best⌠its all down to sales pitch !
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âŚin the router at home, in the NAS at home, in the smart TV (especially if we count Android to Linux), in the firmware of the networked printer/multifunctional, probably the list could be continued⌠
Actually Linux runs on much more computers than any other OS.
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Yes forgot all about them, usually if i mention tax office or government departments they go off on a tanjent on how this does not work, how they were over charged, pay too much tax !
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With IoT - Linux is everywhere - itâs on Mars too!
Yesterday I took a look at the number of devices on my router wifi and ethernet :
37!
I would like to know which EACH one actually is by IP addressâŚ
Tried running nmap scan (GUI) yesterday and got no resultsâŚ
It doesnât help that I have such A VAST CIDR
Overkill - I know - and whoâd ever need 262,142 nodes? But I seem to remember someone infamously asked âwhoâd ever need more than 640K of RAM?â
ALL 500 of the top supercomputers run Linux⌠I remember Microsoft actually had a Windows server product trying to compete in the âsuper computeâ space - they didnât stand a chance!
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Linux on the desktop is problematic because a lot of the time thereâs ACPI table issues. Thereâs always something wrong with the ACPI tables in an off-the-shelf computer/laptop.
Another issue is drivers. If hardware vendors would actually make work of supporting Linux properly, things would be a lot easier.
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ACPI is a Linux thing I think. ( not sure about Win⌠I looked it up, yes Win also uses ACPI)
It is an inteface between the OS and the firmware⌠and uses tables of data that are stored in the bios.
So what @xahodo means is new hardware often has these tables wrongly set up in the bios.
I have never had an ACPI issue that I was aware of, but I imagine bad tables could lead to power management issues.
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ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) is a firmware thing.
It is supposed to provide the OS with information about stuff like CPU clocking, fan-control, sensors, power-control, etc. Basically, anything relating to management of hardware.
There are two popular ACPI table compilers. One is from⌠Microsoft and the other from Intel. While the one from Intel follows the specification to the letter, the other, from Microsoft, treats many issues which are errors according to the ACPI specification as a warning. Guess which one is used more often and what the results are.
Sometimes youâve got a malevolent hardware manufacturer which tweaks the ACPI tables such as to when Linux is detected, the computer becomes unstable or particular devices are never initialized.
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We need a piece of software to inspect ACPI tables and hardware and report such situations.
Does such software exist?
I have read this
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/ACPITricksAndTips
it is complicated
More info here
How does someone building a PC deal with this?
Does a motherboard come with ACPI tables all set up? No that cant be ⌠other hardware might be added ?
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This is the main constraint for Linux to be successfully deployed as a complete OS in the desktop computer segment.
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You referred to drivers.
Linux does work on the vast majority of desktops, and so does BSD. Netbsd works on a huge range of machines, some very old.
Drivers are sometimes an issue, but I dont think they are the only issue.
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To me, itâs the main issue as I am facing it. I like Debian, a lot. Fedora overwhelmed me. Itâs so cool. BUT⌠There is a biiiiig âBUTâ which is a pain in my butt and that is the display driver. I always thought and some people also mentioned that Linux has the power to revive an (seriously) old computer and though I didnât know anything in Linux (I still donât know and trying to learn a bit), I advocated it always to other non-linux people only for this reason. I assumed that making an old computer usable covers the âdriversâ part also. But now I see that my assumption was wrong. Though Linux does a far better job than Windows with the native Free drivers, but it lacks where it comes to proprietary drivers and that is not the fault of Linux. Proprietary driver makers like Nvidia do not want to lend a helping hand to Linux developers because they want their CONTROL which Linux should not bargain with. And regarding this, I support reverse engineering, which may sound unethical but their is a line in SHRIMAD BHAGAWAT GEETA the holy book of Hinduism and the holy grail of management, where SHREE KRISHNA told ARJUN that he must not giveaway his share of the empire without a war. So, regarding the lack of willingness of the proprietary driver makers (for their own hardware like GPU) like Nvidia, doing reverse engineering on those drivers, learning internal codes and create something new but effective Linux only drivers for those same hardwares, is the answer of those hardware vendorsâ greediness. But that should be an âopen secretâ otherwise those companies will go legal or Linux developers have to do something like Daniel Tufvesson has done for Davinci Resolve. The later I think would be more legal and soft approach to make these proprietary drivers work and believe me, people will be willing to take the hassle of following the path of installing the drivers for the hardwares they have bought and this way, Linux will become the most sought-after OS to replace Windows.
Disclaimer: The problems I mentioned here and the opinions I have given, are all mine and mine only. These opinions are not intended to encourage piracy or any other form of work which is/are illegal in the eyes of law.
Your particular problem is that issue with nvidia not being willing to update drivers for old nvidia cards.
There is no issue with new nvidia cards⌠nvidia have reportedly changed their policy re linux drivers.
So that issue is solved for the future.
The only solution for old unsupported cards is to replace them. You have been considering that. I know it is expensive, I had to do the same myself.
If you really want to try and support your old card, there is nothing to stop you writing your own driver, but I doubt you will convince any developer to invest effort in a driver for old hardware.
The other issue that you have is that you are wanting to do some very intensive work like editing videos. You will have to accept that the hardware for such work ( ie high end graphics cards) is expensive and shortlived. This is a rapidly evolving area and I would expect that a new card today would be out of date in about 5 years. The software will have changed so much in that time that todayâs card will not be adequate. Games people have the same problem.
Normal non-intensive users can expect a much longer hardware life, and Linux even helps prolong that.
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Right. I cannot convince and cannot do the same by myself. I searched the internet and found that AMD has provided the source code of its gpu driver for Linux and thatâs why AMD cards donât give any such problem like Nvidia and for this reason, I am going to buy an AMD card.
But I doubt, how many Windows users, both gamers and small content creators will try to understand this and willingly go for Linux. But, I can assure you, I have understood this⌠at last.
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Writers in particular donât need much. Yes, their machine needs to be able to cope with word processors, especially for features which help them work with editors (the job, not the programs).
Programs like Bibisco and Novelwriter donât need much in the sense of hardware, and they both provide whatâs needed.
I have a Ryzen 3 4300U in my current machine, along with 8GB of RAM, and itâs more than enough for both pieces of software.
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