The year of the Linux desktop™ finally arrived! 😅
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just in time for half-life 3 😮💨
This is huge! Just slightly less than "Unknown"!
Those are people who know how to evade data collection. We count those as ours.
Comments on the website claim it might be windows users using edge's protection. It also mirrors a dip in windows users historically
tbh. the only thing holding me back from using linux on my daily driver, is anti cheat support. If faceit had a linux client, i would jump immediately
Faceit oof, need full access to your pc, refuse to let you use features of your pc and you have to strangle them during a gdpr request to make them finally hand over data. Shame how they fell, but they have that market share advantage.
I think that's a fundamental problem: A tool like faceit takes freedom from the user away. If it was open source (i.e. modifiable), it could lie in favour of its owner. Since Linux is open source, a good programmer could probably get Linux to lie to the tool to send the wrong data and therefore allow cheating. Controlling the user requires a system the user has no control over :-)
Server browser would help mitigate the issue. Let you user police themselves. They build a community and police themselves from harmful actors if they want to have fun with their friends.
It's interesting to look at the stats in detail by region.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
India is at like 13.7% Linux which pulls the average up a lot. In the USA and western Europe we are still under 3%, kind of.
But still, I'm happy for so many users escaping Microsofts claws.
I would love to one day switch over completely to Linux. Microsoft has got me trapped with their games.
Microsoft has got me trapped with their games
check this out later, who knows, maybe you're not as bound as you think you are to windows
This is great, I'll take a closer look.
I don't even engage with their gaming platform. It's those darned foreign adult games that are windows only.
I'm quite the gamer and run into very few issues gaming on linux these days. Proton is a game changer. The only real issues are if you're trying to run the latest AAA game at peak performance, or games with certain anti-cheat. But I would say more than half of the anti-cheat games still just work for me.
Most games work really good on Linux these days. Maybe not the latest AAA games but really, almost everything.
I've been playing around with Mint on a VM
Are these actual installs or are they counting steambox?
Statcounter bases their data on web traffic. If you're browsing the web on your Steam Deck, I think that should count.
Which tbh if someone's using the deck for browsing, they're treating it like a portable pc anyways
Shouldn’t we count steam devices?
We should. Not counting them is like not counting all the laptops/PCs with windows preinstalled and Apple devices with MacOS preinstalled.
Ye
Steam boxes aren't really a thing. The Steam Deck is not really used as a desktop PC a lot. So, no.
Just 7 decades til world domination!
lol
but this does bring up a real concern:
I highly doubt that "desktop PCs" will still be a thing in 7 decades.
the desktop/laptop will most likely get replaced by something else
and if modern PCs have some roadblocks for installing any OS you want (SecureBoot, and soon Microsoft Pluton), then imagine how much harder it will be on the next iteration of personal devices.
Well, "will be". Already is. On phones. Most phones require serious wizardry or make it basically impossible to install other OS on them.
And as far as I see, phones will be the thing that takes place of PCs.
so yes, I would not mind if the FOSS community abandons the whole Year Of The Linux Desktop™ meme right now and instead starts to focus on ensuring that the upcoming platform will allow us to have the freedom. Let Microsoft enjoy the dominance on PC. Maybe challenge them every now and then. But the primary focus of FOSS community should be the preemptive liberation of the platform that will follow PC.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.