EDIT (2025-12-19T09:08Z): Whoops! I totally didn’t see that this had already been posted to this community [2]. I didn’t mean to repost it. My bad!

References
  1. Type: Image. Title: “Traffic by Operating System”. Publisher: [“Pornhub”>“2025 YEAR IN REVIEW”]. Published: 2025-12-03. Accessed: 2025-12-16T23:00Z. URI: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2025-year-in-review.
    • Location: §“Traffic by Operating System”.
  2. Type: Post. Title: “Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year”. Author: “maam” (“@maam@feddit.uk”). Publisher: [“sh.itjust.works”>“Linux” (“!linux@programming.dev”)]. Published: 2025-12-09T1;31:57Z. Accessed: 2025-12-19T09:10Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51299445.
  • Sims@lemmy.ml
    241·
    5 days ago

    Yeah, I lost my girlfriend, so … no judging please !

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 days ago

      It doesn’t work like that. They use the self-reported user agent from the web browser that is requesting the page.

  • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    5 days ago

    cool and all but what % of people watch porn on their “big screen”? hard for me to remember that last time I wanked it at a desktop. shit, it might have been at work which would require windows.

    • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
      201·
      5 days ago

      It’s not at all misleading. That’s how percantages work. It plainly says ‘+22.4%’, which is fully factual and accurate. Your ‘actual 1% increase’ is a false statement. It’s a 1 percentage point increase, which is completely separate from the regular percantage.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      5 days ago

      A percentage increase is a relative increase. The thing you’re thinking of would be described as “percentage points”.

      It’s somewhat misleading to talk about a large percentage increase on a small base, though.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
        33·
        5 days ago

        A percentage increase is a relative increase. The thing you’re thinking of would be described as “percentage points”.

        Yes, as I pointed out it is technically correct. Just a misleading first impression.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      Nah mate, it’s very much exactly what it says. A ambiguous statement would be “Share of Linux devices on pornhub grew by 22.5%” which could be either in relative or absolute terms. Traffic increase is pretty much number of requests made from a Linux machine grew by 22.5%.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      I’m struggling to understand why you think the title is misleading. Could you elaborate on your rationale to help me understand? 🙂

      Do you perhaps have an alternative title that you would suggest? Would you be satisfied by something like, for example, “Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic (from [e.g.] 5% to ~6%) over 2025”?

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
        52·
        5 days ago

        Sure! As is currently written, it gives the first impression (to me, at least) that the traffic share of Linux has jumped from x% to (x+22)%. Now I understand that this is subjective, but I believe that’s how many people would read it at first glance as well.

        Again, there’s nothing technically inaccurate about it, but the 22% number there is imo distracting and tends to lead to misunderstandings. I would personally write it as “Pornhub sees Linux traffic share increase from 5% to 6% (22.4% increase) over 2025”

    • dakoriki@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      5 days ago

      Well it is an increase of 22,4 percent but at the same time an increase of 1 percentage point. So both are correct. But as we know bigger number more better so thats what we got

  • Phegan@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 days ago

    It’s the year of the Linux desktop, baby. Been waiting 40 years for it. And will be waiting 40 more