Linux Desktop share keeps increasing, 3.13% now.

https://lemmy.ml/post/2785143

Linux Desktop share keeps increasing, 3.13% now. - Lemmy

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.
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.