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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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[–] httperror418 5 points 3 months ago (8 children)

What would people recommend if the main reason you use windows is gaming? I have an AMD CPU and a Nvidia GPU, if drivers are good etc, which OS would you use

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[–] PanArab 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It is really nice to see an alternative to US corporate tech making inroads. But to get the numbers even higher the US needs to ban the Chinese and Russians from using Windows and I hope they do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

But to get the numbers even higher the US needs to ban the Chinese and Russians from using Windows and I hope they do.

It's been not that long since most of Windows installations in Russia were pirated ones, with MS updates turned off (in case they try something).

There's a popular opinion that MS liked it this way - they get just as huge a userbase as everywhere else, and they don't have to change pricing policy to make it affordable in ex-USSR.

I'm not sure if there's point to talking seriously about Western software licensing in China.

My point is that numbers won't get higher for such reasons.

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

I hope there's geometric progression somewhere.

Many Linux distributions suck, and the way many people use Linux sucks too, but it'd still be a bit better world if Linux would be mainstream OS.

Even better if that'd be NetBSD, of course. OpenBSD if performance would be better. FreeBSD - just better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research firm Statcounter.

Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views.

Since June, ChromeOS adoption took a bit of a dive, representing 2.27 percent of the worldwide market last month.

Windows dominance, meanwhile, mostly increased between June and February, when the Microsoft OS was reportedly on 72.17 percent of computers.

Ultimately, the big OS players are still, by far, Windows and macOS, which represented 87.59 percent of desktop OSes in February.

Still, it’s interesting to watch usage of the open source OS grow, especially as fragmentation and app discovery improve.

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