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Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 3 months ago (10 children)

7.14% unknown!

The year of Plan 9 on the desktop!

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Serious question: you'd use that for your daily driver?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

I already do.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sorry but Linux is becoming too mainstream for me now. Time to hop on to BSD

[–] Valmond 42 points 3 months ago

Oh no, I feel it already the "I was on Linux before it was cool"

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

Windows 11 is a strong motivator. I suspect like many other people, the only reason I was keeping Windows around was gaming. But thanks to Proton and the Steam Deck, the number of games in my library that won’t run on Linux is vanishingly small. I deleted my Windows partition a few months ago and haven’t looked back.

Install Linux or buy a Mac, fuck Windows.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't buy a Mac. That's more limiting than a Windows. But yeah install linux.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (7 children)

More limited, but also less enshittified than Windows.

If you want a good, well-polished experience for certain creative workloads, or even programming, MacOS is great and their Apple Silicon CPUs are excellent.

If you want to do ANY gaming besides WoW (which surprisingly enough has always had great MacOS support) or you can't stand the lack of configurability, Linux is immediately the superior choice by far.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Mac?! Darwin no, that’s doing the opposite of liberating yourself and it has less gaming than Linux I’d say.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gaming works pretty damn well as far as I'm concerned, the few that I can't get to work are irrelevant.

I'm keeping Windows around for work... fuck Autodesk and fuck Dassault. So I am trying to get a VM with GPU pass through to work (had it working once but then I screwed it up and now I can't seem to get it working again).

[–] Aceticon 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Having done the transition some months ago, there is still some stupid shit one has to deal with (especially, but not only, for games NOT from Steam) at times, more than in Windows, but it's all so much better than it was before and by now quite close to the Gaming experience in Windows.

Then on top of that there are all the the longer term peace of mind things versus Windows: upgrading your Linux costs zero, changing your hardware won't invalidate your Linux "OEM License" (plus it will probably just boot up as normal with if you just move your SSD to a whole new machine rather than throw you into driver nightmare), games that work in today's Linux will keep on working in tomorrow's and so on - this is actually massive advantage of Linux versus Windows which is seldom talked about: more often than not, hardware migration with Linux is to just move your SSD to a whole new machine, with all the stuff just the way you like it and all you files, and it just boots with and keeps on working.

(PS: Especially relevant for gamers who have to upgrade due to the increasing demands on hardware from the gaming side of things even though the hardware is fine for everything else they do in that machine, and who would rather that all those other things they've installed and kept on using rather than uninstall after "finishing the game", just carry on configured just the way they like it and working just the way they've always did, even when they do upgrade the hardware because of games. People who are fine with hardware dedicated to gaming and with replacing the whole thing - hardware and software - for newer games, just get XBoxes or similar consoles, not PCs)

Linux not only saves you from enshittification, keeps control in your hands and preserves your privacy, it's also a reliable and functional long term OS layer for your hardware that doesn't force hardware upgrades on you.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FREEBSD >0.009% RAAAAAH 👹👹👹💪💪💪💪💪🦾🔥🔥🔥

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[–] Nikki 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

im doing my part 💪

switched to arch a week or so ago, absolutely loving it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm doing my part

Linux Mint here. Soon to switch to a more "manual" distro.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Time to speak to our representatives to switch to Linux Systems as Switzerland did for cyber security and for fiscal responsibility.

We must not fall behind that smart country once again.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago

Il feels like every month that passes Linux keeps breaking all time highs! So exciting

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago

Microsoft's advertising campaign for people to switch to Linux is working great.

[–] olafurp 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We’re gonna hit that 5%

[–] menemen 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It is kinda crazy. Been using Linux since 2005 or 2006 on my desktop/notebook. I cannot believe we are almost mainstream now.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Nobody using TempleOS? =(

THE LORD NEEDS NO NETWORKING!!! THE LORD IS THE NETWORK!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

If you pray hard enough, the Lord will make the websites appear on your screen!

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[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm so happy.

But also liked when linux felt like a secret.

Microsoft finally did something right: they made their shitty product shitty enough for people to realize it.

[–] andrewth09 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

But also liked when linux felt like a secret.

Don't worry. You can still tap into that sweet sweet Linux elitism by running an Arch based system or a tiling window manager.

[–] iopq 13 points 3 months ago

That's old news, NixOS is the new hotness

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[–] superminerJG 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)

soon we will reach the magic number companies need to finally consider supporting Linux for once

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[–] Aceticon 29 points 3 months ago (13 children)

At this rate the Year Of Linux On The Desktop will be 2033!!!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

It is 16% in India, lessgo!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The crowdstrike failure is probably helping Linux.

[–] pete_the_cat 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is what I was thinking when it happened. Businesses lose a shit ton of productivity and money due to Microsoft and Windows being a clusterfuck in multiple ways and they decide it's time to switch to something more stable.

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[–] TheGrandNagus 24 points 3 months ago

So like 6% if you class ChromeOS as Linux (which it essentially is, just with a proprietary DE)

Then 7% unknown, you'd imagine a disproportionate amount of those would be Linux users, who are more likely to have unusual useragents or things that mess with telemetry. But who knows.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That FreeBSD club looks pretty good. There's a niche for every niche.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Hmm is this really happening so fast? It's a little hard to believe.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Thank you Windows 11!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I understand you're excited, but aren't you overdoing it a bit?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

Quick give me more subs to crosspost

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We need more cross posts

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I have been dual booting for some time now. Come back to windows 10 for gaming. But then I suddenly realize that the blizzard games that I play can run on Linux, and even from the same folder with the NTFS partition. I was stunned. No notable performance difference either.

I recently shows my mum that have an old Core 2 Duo that it can run Linux Mint. She said it works, and the computer shutdowns directly when I tell it to do. No more updating windows to wait for before unplugging the power cable. Still have to dual boot Windows 10 for Microsoft Office Word document compatibility and Google Picasa.

She also just have bought a new computer with Windows 11, could barely make it through the installation. So many questions and configuration needed to get rid of ads and popups in Edge. Need to evaluation Mint more before I try to dual boot it on this machine as well.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are steamdecks getting counted in this?

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[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Would be interesting to know how much of that the steam deck is

[–] menemen 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

It is not a steam user percentage, but according to the site by user data from web pages, it explicitly mentions search engines and social media. I doubt that the steam deck is extremely significant here.