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Linux marketshare measured by statcounter didn't sustain the >4% mark in January 2025
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Obsessing about this increasingly irrelevant figure is pointless. Most people do not even have desktop computers outside work, and the number is going to keep dropping and dropping. The world has moved to mobile.
As Linux nerds who care about the future of free personal computing, we need to reboot our minds and focus on how to get free software onto mobile devices and into mobile applications.
The FOSS Linux stack is going nowhere on mobile (I have speaking rights here: I once bought an Ubuntu phone). Our last best hope is web apps that use web standards. I say we transfer our obsession to that project instead, rather than worry about this distraction of a statistic.
You can pry my laptop and PC from my cold, dead hands. I've been seeing people lament the death of computers for years and I still see no change. Most of the people I know (not nerds or techy people at all) still have at least one PC or laptop at home.
The people you know are not representative of the world population, and becoming even less so every day.
Of course. But, I've also traveled to and lived in multiple countries on multiple continents. While that still means nothing in the bigger picture, I'm still having trouble believing that computers are being completely replaced by phones.