KapedLinux Desktop share keeps increasing, 3.13% now.
And this is through summer and universities break. Its fair to expect a higher increase through the last Quarter of the year and probably surpassing ChromeOS with 3.24%
Currently running Windows 10, but refuse to upgrade to Windows 11. Next rebuild will hopefully be Linux-based, and am getting my head around it slowly through my Steam Deck. It has immensely improved since my uni days in the early 2000s.
Gnome 45 and Plasma 6 are coming by the end of the year. Add that Wine/Proton further development to bring in even more games. It’ll all increase Linux user experience even further to what Windows is offering right now.
I do wonder how steams mau looks throughout the year.
Wonder how much Steam deck is carrying the team
maddruidEven for those not on Steam Deck, they’re able to play more games on other distros because of all the work they did to get games working on Steam Deck, so you could technically say close to 100% IMHO.
NaoPbMaybe as far as gaming is concerned but let’s not forget everyone else’s hard work. Linux has come a long way and is becoming ever more user friendly.
The Deck is for sure standing on the shoulder’s of giants.
You’re right, I also forgot to credit Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage,
Rassilonian LegateI knew I forgot someone.
I think these statistics are based on people browsing the web, which most steam deck users probably don’t do on the steam deck. This is likely desktop users.
SoftScotchI wonder why Windows share dips while “unknown” surges. It seems to reverse afterwards.
OverfedRaccoon 🦝I read in another post a while ago that there was some issue with a Windows update that caused it not to register as Windows. It was then corrected in a subsequent update. So Unknown is just Windows.
I don’t care about linux taking over the world or anything but I just want the market share high enough so companies will port their shit over
From what I read its ~ 5% for this to happen and companies taking Linux seriously.
Please share that article! 5% feels like just around the corner!
I hope that applies to games as well. It really does feel super close!
This doesn’t make much sense because different companies / services will have vastly different development costs associated with Linux compatibility and there wouldn’t be just one global number that they’re waiting for
It’s a rough benchmark, not a “if we hit 5%, we immediately get all the software.”
For example, I doubt we’d get Apple porting Safari to Linux regardless of marketshare, but we’d probably get a ton more games with native support if it just meant testing and minor fixes to the Linux-compatible Vulkan build.
So don’t expect Adobe to suddenly port everything over, but expect a lot better compatibility as we get around 5% marketshare.
they should just use Vulkan in the first placr because that runs on both windows and Linux
Sure, but that doesn’t eliminate dev or testing costs, it just reduces them.
People who don’t care is the reason Linux Desktop is at 3% and not 100%
I said I don’t care about world domination. I do care about it getting up tho
Nearly 30 years after I first heard "Linux will take over Windows"! Think that was in 1994 or 1995.
Seems to be truly be gaining momentum and solidifying its status though. Linux 30 years, 20 years, 10 years, even 5 years ago is not even comparable its current state.
Lol its in last place behind an ad based mobile os that just came out #Progress
man you salty af
ChromeOS has been out for over a decade. Its not “new”, many schools actually used it before the pandemic.
Anarch157aTo dislodge an incumbent, a product needs to have an enormous advantage, a killer feature that makes the hassle of changing worth it. Up until now, Linux didn’t have it. Well, it did, but Windows had it too, but Microsoft dropped it: lack of ads baked on the OS.
Now that Windows is turning into yet another Ad delivery system, people are looking for an escape. Many are going to Macs, some are coming to Linux.
That’s not really a killer app.
The biggest reason Windows is the leader by far is because of the Office suite. There’s no good alternative that has anywhere near the features or fluidity and doesn’t feel like it was designed in 2005.
NeilFunny enough, MS is constantly improving the online versions of the office apps. On Linux if i need to be absolutely sure my formatting is good in a word document, I will open it in the online version of Word as opposed to LibreOffice.
Online Office has definitely gotten better. At this point I think the big nursing features are macros (which will never come) and Power Query/Pivot and the Data Model.
I switched to Linux a week ago, I’m part of that statistic
ivanafterallI haven't fully switched, yet, because I don't want to be just another statistic.
You’re just part of the other side of the statistic.
Welcome! One of us, one of us, one of us!
Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble!
MatthewI came back to Linux about a month ago. I was nervous at first that my stuff wouldn’t work, it required a bit of tweaking to get everything how I want it, but I’m happy to be here :)
I use Arch btw
SturgiesYrFaseWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! LINE GO UP!
In all seriousness, welcome.
Are you presenting this as good news? Linux on desktop is one of the biggest colossal failures. Decades of slow moving, barely growing numbers while the desktop was increasingly dominating the computing space. And now, with the desktop space collapsing its numbers are improving to what is still negligible representation. And that’s happening because those who remain on the desktop space are increasingly likely to be tech heads.
On servers it’s the dominant force. But on the consumer space it has failed. And for good reason.
Boooooo!!!
SHAKE HARDER, BOY! shakes fist
manned_meatball“Desktop OS” also counts laptops. Unless people are working from their smartphones, I don’t think desktop is collapsing at all.
That kind of sounds like “It’s bad because its growing slow. It’s growing slow because its bad” Is there something specific about it you don’t like?
The desktop space is collapsing because people are moving to smartphones. And Android, which is Linux-based, dominates that market.
Been using Linux since the first Ubuntu release in 2004. Every year I keep reading about “this is the year Linux will take the world”
Not take the world but its its becoming increasingly popular on the Desktop.
I think we’re at a unique point where windows has pissed off people to no end by continuing to ruin their operating system, and Linux has reached a very mature point. Everyone I know that uses windows hates it now, more than ever, and are finally at the tipping point.
I’m the only one in my company that uses Linux so far, but I finally told my boss “screw it. I’m done with windows” after updating to W11. It became a lot more reasonable to do so after our transition to Azure instead of on-prem resources. I can do pretty much everything in the browser and things like Azure CLI being available on Linux makes me more productive than my GUI-dependent coworkers.
I would like to see a breakdown of useage by region. For example I found stats that said India’s share of linux users rose from 9% in May to 15% in July. That’s quite a sharp increase in only 2 months! With a population of over 1 billion people, I’m betting this rise would have a significant increase in global stats, so I wonder what is behind it…
India is introducing a Data Protection Bill (based on the GDPR, but with controversial exemptions for the government itself), so companies could be restructuring their IT systems. As to why India is high in general, our government has had a policy of encouraging free software for quite some time. Most schools and many government offices use either Ubuntu or BOSS (Debian with improved support for Indian languages).
Good News! Indian State Aims to Save Over $400 Million by Choosing Linux
Schools in Ithe ndian state of Kerala are expected to save ₹3000 crore (roughly $428 million) by choosing Linux as their operating system for school computers under a state-wide project. The Southern Indian state of Kerala is known for its beautiful backwaters. Kerala is also known for its education policy.
That’s amazing.
Here in Brazil, we had the government encouraging free software in the 2000s, but the projects and policies were all abandoned.
And to think we could have a similar adoption to yours today… sigh…
Back then, people didn’t understand how such projects give benefits in a long timeframe, and wanted immediate results, something impossible.
To be fair, I think the main reasons they support FOSS are (a) saving on licence fees and (b) not being dependent on a foreign company, which can be forced to stop supporting our infrastructure if we piss off the US / China.
But still good reasons, anyway.
Oh that’s interesting, exposing kids to it is a great idea because then they won’t have the whole barrier of the ‘fear of the unknown’ when considering installing it on their own PC. Thanks for sharing!
Microsoft office on Linux soon, I hope.
I know there are alternatives but my files do not work with them. I use it professionally and truly need Microsoft office… sadly.
Have you tried free office? It’s really good. If be surprised if your files didn’t work in it but if they don’t I guess your waiting for office for Linux or perhaps trying office 365.