The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While gaming is still 2.64%, meaning that the Chromebooks and discounted PCs without windows contribute massively to the stat

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Is gaming stat based on steam survey? If so that shows wild variation, and also has a flawed metric collection. From a steam article they measure your game play of a title during the first 2 weeks of purchase, so if you dualboort and play more time on Windows for that period, that is the stat, negating if you then played months or years on Linux after it.

Statcounter has an other category, and when Linux drops or raises % there is a symmetrically opposite change in the Other %. To me this Other probably includes the machines you mention.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

It is Setting Orange 26 Bureaucracy 3191 YOLD (Year Of the Linux Desktop)

[+] QuadDamage@kbin.earth -6 points 6 days ago (19 children)

Very nice to see, only worry is that Linux will get enshittified (primarily by the GNOME people).

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago

If only your distro would support more than one desktop.

I will say though, Gnome dropping support for other window managers does suck. That is them removing infrastructure that non-(or semi) Gnome users depend on.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Very nice to see, only worry is that Linux will get enshittified (primarily by the GNOME people).

You misspelled "systemd".

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 179 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Nothing about Linux users is quiet.

I use arch btw

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 125 points 1 week ago (9 children)

At work, the windows outage spooked management hard. They noticed that our small amout of Linux servers didn't go down. So now they are OK with us using Linux more. After many decades of Windows.

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[–] morto@piefed.social 95 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Installed linux for my brother-in-law and for a professor last month. Both liked it and are probably going to use it insted of moving to win11. I'm doing my part.

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[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 71 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hi hello, this is partly me. My bad. I’m not moving to Win11 (by force and by choice) so I installed Arch just to start to get the hang of things and, well, now I’m just daily driving it.

I’ve run distributions in the distant past and toyed with recent ones. I think this one is staying though.

Feels good that when my computer is idle, it’s not busy spouting off telemetry to some server somewhere. I can customize way more than before, and with Proton, I can still play the games I want to.

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[–] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

finally doing it as my daily driver

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 week ago (31 children)

Kids really need to be introduced to Linux earlier. None of this iPad baby shit.

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[–] cm0002@piefed.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do I dare say it?

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 week ago (8 children)

YEAR

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