Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
Can we also have an open source surge against Android, with valid providers in all countries?
We totally can, but not yet. Postmarket is trying hard AF.
The whole Voice/SMS/VoLTE/DataLTE side of things is proprietary, so they’re reverse engineering it, but it’s painfully slow. Probably once they crack it open, the industry will try to protect it behind encryption and DRM.
I personally like Android
What we need is better AOSP
The year of the Linux desktop isn’t as interesting anymore. It all sort of works good enough for most people not to need to care now.
What we need is the year of the Linux phone. And it think that we will have to still wait a long time for it. And no, Google/Linux does not count.
The interesting part wasn’t gatekeeping with technical difficulty, but MS loss of marketshare and loss to large corps.