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Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (3 children)

~~1991~~: Year of the Linux Desktop

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~~2019~~

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[–] BombOmOm 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

2023 was officially the year of the Linux laptop for me. The year of the linux desktop for myself may or may not be this year.

[–] sailingbythelee 6 points 4 months ago

Same here. After several false starts over the last 30 years, 2023 was the year of the Linux laptop and server cluster for me. I've put in the work now and I am 100% sure that I'm never going back to Windows for those machines. I still have a fancy new Windows gaming machine though. I don't want to switch it to Linux because it's an Intel/Nvidia machine with three screens and a bunch of peripherals. Whoops!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

id reckon youd have to wait for steam machines to have a modern reboot, and I dont think valve wants to push that yet till the majority of popular online miltiplayer games run on linux (the major hurdle linux has for gaming) as a home console replacement user is far more likely to also delve into online multiplayer over the handheld on the go player.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My year was 2007. I stopped caring about the rest of the world following me by about 2015. 17 years since I touched Windows without being paid to do so. feelsgoodman.jpg

[–] m3t00 1 points 3 months ago

Windows 95 lockups drove me to linux. Options are good.