Weird thing my friend said lol

Barbiefan1475

So I have a one of my favorite best friend that I met in high school and we talked about some tech stuff since she knows about tech related stuff , and I said do you know linux and she littertly said only adults and no Young kids and Young adults and use Linux and I'm like whatttt . So yea kinda weird what she said . What do you think of this .

tomscharbach

Barbiefan1475 only adults and no Young kids and Young adults and use Linux

And, just out of curiosity, what did your friend think young people use -- Windows, macOS or Chrome OS?

She may be on to something. In fact, she is probably right. Most schools hand out Chromebooks, so a lot of young people use Chrome OS, or absent school-supplied Chromebooks, use whatever OS is installed on the computers at home, usually Windows or macOS.

Brucehankins

Barbiefan1475 not surprised. When you look at desktop Linux market share, it's still under the 3% adoption mark. Most people using ChromeOS don't know they're using Linux. I feel like awareness is growing, but it still mostly for the tinkerer, tech worker, or generally older crowds.
Another big factor is widely available OEM devices. Yes Dell, Lenovo, and HP ship Linux now, and there are companies like System 76, Tuxedo, and Star Labs, but those aren't household names. The household name brands generally make it more difficult to select a Linux machine than a Windows machine on most of the sales sites too.
Until it hits a point where there is widespread OEM support, I don't think the idea that most people don't use or know of Linux will change greatly.

Barbiefan1475

tomscharbach she doesn't know much about os that much . But she told me that in her school they only use windows 10 education edition . When I told her chrome os is based on gentoo Linux she was like whatt don't chromebook use andriod os . To be honest she kinda knows some stuff about Linux since I teached with my Linux knowledge that I know to her 🙂

tomscharbach

Barbiefan1475 But she told me that in her school they only use windows 10 education edition.

That doesn't surprise me. Windows 10/11 Education edition is built on Windows Enterprise and is designed with good IT management tools, allowing the schools to control what is on the school's computers and manage the computers as a group.

I know several school districts that use the Education edition, although most of the school districts I'm familiar with issue Chromebooks because they are cheaper than Windows computers and also have good IT management tools available.

The reason I know little bit about this stuff is that I was part of a group that worked to make it possible for small, rural, poorly funded schools in our state to computerize and get computers in the classroom. The group offered technology advice/training/support for school district personal, and helped the school districts get grants and funding.

In the last five-ten years or so, the state government's education department stepped in and started to do what we used to do, which is a good thing.

Barbiefan1475

tomscharbach some of my teachers actually use windows 11 and some even use windows 7 for school teaching . The weird part but make sense in my opinion is that for the server side my school used to use Ubuntu 20.04 lts but they switched to using windows 11 home edition as their server os for easier use case just yesterday

WetGeek

tomscharbach I was part of a group that worked to make it possible for small, rural, poorly funded schools in our state to computerize and get computers in the classroom.

I knew there was a reason I liked you.

tomscharbach

Barbiefan1475 True but hopefully the steam deck can make Linux more popular.

Steam deck will make Linux more widely used (just as Chromebooks and Android devices do), to be sure, but I doubt that it will popularize Linux on the desktop. As @riffer said "desktop linux is pretty niche".

Linux is all over the place, and dominates several market segments, but as I see things, desktop Linux will remain "niche" unless and until the Linux desktop becomes as easy to use (and essentially invisible to the user) as Android and Chromebook Linux implementations.

Barbiefan1475 my school used to use Ubuntu 20.04 lts but they switched to using windows 11 home edition as their server os

I can't think of a worse fit for server management than Windows 11 Home Edition (except maybe Windows 10 Home in S Mode). But I assume that someone has thought about it, and there's a reason.

riffer

People forget about Android, much less all the servers on linux that support their daily activities. That being said, desktop linux is pretty niche.

Barbiefan1475

riffer True but hopefully the steam deck can make Linux more popular .

pomon

riffer People forget about Android, much less all the servers on linux that support their daily activities.

Let's not forget about supercomputers. They also use on Linux. 😀

WetGeek

tomscharbach I can't think of a worse fit for server management than Windows 11 Home Edition (except maybe Windows 10 Home in S Mode). But I assume that someone has thought about it, and there's a reason.

Windows Server products work very differently than their desktop products, even down to the size of the timeslices they use in their multitasking (due to the expense of context switching). I couldn't imagine a worse OS for any kind of server than Windows home.

That said, the "servers" in the school environment may still work well the way they're using them. It depends on what (and how much of it) the servers are being asked to do.

Barbiefan1475

WetGeek well my school though it would be easier to use windows 11 as a server os but I'm sure since I saw in their server lab room during my class yesterday a pop os (Ubuntu based) server (kinda weird they use it but oh well ) so they still using Linux for the backend but for the school network and the school frontend they now use windows instead of Ubuntu

ARiosProjekt

I do use macOS, FreeBSD and Solus... what am I? a young-old man?