The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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Windows' market share is being nibbled to death by cats.
Nah it's just being replaced with phones.
Low tech users used to have cheap windows machines, now they have phones and tablets.
Zathras, holding up a thumb drive with a Windows Installer ISO:
"No, never use this."
New distro: ZathrOS
Error message: This why ZathrOS not have nice things.
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Damn Linux becoming mainstream. How will I feel like a superior tech elite now?
Switch to BSD
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Only use TTY
Guess it's time to move to Gentoo ~ or Nix
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Honestly didn't believe the year of the linux desktop would be this year. I say it every year as a meme and it's actually here
About to be 6.0000001% when my Kubuntu download finishes. I'm finally taking the dive boys, linux on main here we go.
FWIW, Fedora with KDE is fantastic - been using that as my distro of choice (for systems I want a UI on at least) for a few years now and I love it.
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A long time ago when Linux was around 2-3% someone said that macOS adoption by software companies happened when it got to 5% of the marketshare.
If Linux continues down the path, we might see real support from some of the holdouts.
Before anyone says to use an alternative, sometimes there are not workable alternatives.
Linux has a problem with distribution of binaries, and companies for profit doesn’t want to share source … and packages with only binaries have some dependencies problem… although Flatpak and Snap improved this A LOT…. But then would have GLPv3 in many dependencies and you cannot ship it with a “for profit” product.
This is the biggest hurdle for Linux “for profit” market for better apps. Also many Linux users are against the paid model, preferring open source. There is a cultural limitation to break the bubble
I think SteamOS is helping a lot to break this … but still Linux desktop need to have a cultural change specially on license model or binary stability to be able to have a better app availability
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