• ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml
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        18 days ago

        They’re on the feddit.uk instance, so it’s more likely that they’re British. Either their VPN prefers USA servers for some reason, or they’ve only done about 138 million downloads at most.

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      18 days ago

      Linux has always had a strong showing over there. If I had the misfortune of living there I’d certainly want all the privacy and autonomy I could get…

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        16 days ago

        makes sense. So much sketchy people I know from there that also use like 10 distros for whatever reason and have extremely cracked setups

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        18 days ago

        And probably some security bars for your windows and balcony, so that you don’t accidentally fall to your death…

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    18 days ago

    How does flatpak make money? I feel like I should be paying for the bandwidth im using since it can’t be cheap.

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      18 days ago

      They don’t. They have a CDN sponsor.

      Flathub wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of the following organizations and individuals. Organizations & Infrastructure

      • Codethink
      • Cloud Native Computing Foundation
      • Fastly
      • Mythic Beasts
      • Prerender.io
      • Scaleway
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    18 days ago

    I don’t like Flatpaks, but I guess this is better than nothing.

    I’m surprised China doesn’t have a lot. Are they not using Flathub, or perhaps Flatpaks?

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        Chinese people use the same distros we do generally. But Linux is seen as much more of a professional thing there, and i think the people using it probably just compile things themselves, and have less of a need for flatpak. Huawei actually had a Linux laptop they were offering for sale for awhile, and a lot of the people buying it were having the store clerk put a cracked version of windows on it for them lol.

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          and a lot of the people buying it were having the store clerk put a cracked version of windows on it for them lol.

          that’s hilarious asf is windows seen as a holy beacon or something over there?

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            I think its because they just see it as the “OS non-techies should use” but as Huawei’s Harmony OS becomes more popular i expect that to take over a good bit of that market.