Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.
- empireOfLove ( @empireOfLove@lemmy.one ) English88•1 year ago
Thanks, Steam Deck.
- CaptKoala ( @CaptKoala@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
Now just release the damn thing in Australia so I can buy one from someone other than the shady fb market scalpers.
- empireOfLove ( @empireOfLove@lemmy.one ) English2•1 year ago
sorry, best we can do is “lol”
- CaptKoala ( @CaptKoala@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
This comment so accurate my heart aches
- const_void ( @const_void@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
If Steam Deck counts does ChromeOS count? How about Android?
- empireOfLove ( @empireOfLove@lemmy.one ) English1•1 year ago
ChromeOS is “sort of linux” but sandboxed and uses it’s own user agent string.
Android is the same way- Technically a Linux kernel. But sandboxed to death and uses a separate agent.
- duncesplayed ( @duncesplayed@lemmy.one ) English68•1 year ago
Just an FYI that at this rate it’s only going to take another 115 years before Linux has 100% market share.
- ComradeKhoumrag ( @ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub ) 18•1 year ago
What if S-curve instead of linear rate?
- duncesplayed ( @duncesplayed@lemmy.one ) 31•1 year ago
You mean Linux isn’t going to have 200% market share one day? Shit, I’m starting to think my calculations may have not been totally serious.
- ComradeKhoumrag ( @ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub ) 2•1 year ago
I get that, I just like math
- Declamatie ( @Declamatie@mander.xyz ) 1•1 year ago
Entirely possible if the population dubbles
- MonkderZweite ( @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ) 15•1 year ago
Market share is usually a curve.
- selokichtli ( @selokichtli@lemmy.ml ) 7•1 year ago
This is the same logic that a right wing ex-president of my country used to criticize the current leftist president while talking about the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
That’s for August. And the growth is exponential, not linear.
- db0 ( @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 36•1 year ago
The critical mass needed to tip the scales is not high. Once Linux has enough market share to matter as a customer base, game studios will switch to developing as cross-platform for it by default, so that they don’t lose launch sales. Once this happens, a lot of people won’t have any reason to stay on windows anymore as gaming was the only thing holding them back. This will then create a virtuous cycle of users migrating and games (and then apps) switching to it. Along then come hardware vendor supporty and then pre-built PCs and laptops. If the tipping point is reach, the rate of market share gain will be exponential.
The same thing happened with Internet Explorer 6
The only thing that can stop this is outside pressure from software giants like Microsoft through lobbying the Governments, buying out game studios or buying exclusivity, or strong-arming hardware vendors.
- Kit ( @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 13•1 year ago
MacOS holds a nearly 30% market share and few game developers give a shit about publishing their games on Mac. Why would Linux be any different?
- gens ( @gens@programming.dev ) 17•1 year ago
Apple is notorios about being anti-gaming, yet many games support it while not supporting linux. Don’t know the actual stats though.
- db0 ( @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 14•1 year ago
Are you including iPhones in this market share?
- MazonnaCara89 ( @MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml ) 11•1 year ago
Because linux doesn’t have deprecated opengl, doesn’t run their own proprietary api for gpu instead of implementing vulkan and last but not least because linux does still have support for 32bit application.
- exx ( @exx@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
Although macOS holds a high market share, it holds a smaller percentage of Steam users than Linux right now. Essentially, there’s more people on Linux known to buy games than on Mac (at least on Steam).
30%? Wtf is the source
- rippersnapper ( @rippersnapper@lemm.ee ) 8•1 year ago
Other than gamers, there’s a huge share of enterprise Windows users. And they’re not likely to shift OS, because of IT admin issues. Others in this thread have commented on how Apple is struggling to get devs to build native games compared to Windows.
Sure the number of home PC users might decline, one can always hope.
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) 28•1 year ago
People are really late to the party but better late then never…
Linux is awesome.
- UnknownQuantity ( @UnknownQuantity@lemm.ee ) 25•1 year ago
That was me, I switched my desktop and laptop to ubuntu.
- clutchmattic ( @clutchmattic@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Haja you beat me to this comment
- Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English20•1 year ago
Wow, if it keeps going at this rate, it’ll be the year of Linux on the desktop (50% share) in 2079.
- Da_Boom ( @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English5•1 year ago
Idk, mass adoption is usually slow at first, and then gets faster as it goes on.
- HellAwaits ( @HellAwaits@lemm.ee ) English19•1 year ago
All the linux fanboys just ejaculated at once
- GadgeteerZA ( @danie10@lemmy.ml ) English19•1 year ago
Partly my fault - I have that page set to auto open on my browser every week
- k_rol ( @k_rol@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 year ago
It’s ok, I’ve never been on that site and I changed windows to tumbleweed nearly 2 months ago on my laptop.
- bioemerl ( @bioemerl@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
Proud to be one of them. I tried to disable the job that runs windows update, they said I don’t have permission, so I switched to Ubuntu on every single computer except the one that runs VR games.
As a bonus, as an enthusiast for artificial intelligence stuff, more programs run on Linux than they do on Windows
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
On the VR PC you may find O&O ShutUp 10. It has a collection of settings for privacy and generally control over your PC that microsoft didn’t make really accessible.
- Veraticus ( @Veraticus@lib.lgbt ) English18•1 year ago
Is it actually truly the year of the Linux desktop?
Linux desktop has basically become the Be-so-good they-can’t-ignore-you man
- atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) 24•1 year ago
It helps that Microsoft has been alienating their customers and set high bars for OS upgrades.
- escapesamsara ( @escapesamsara@discuss.online ) 11•1 year ago
This is definitely a major reason. Windows 11 forces TPM 2, random hardware requirements that make no sense, and is objectively a downgrade from windows 10 (like every other windows version always is). Since Windows 10 is two years out from EoL and all major Linux distros have gotten so much better… might as well upgrade while you can still go back to 10 should you need to, before you have to be on Linux or throw out a bunch of otherwise fine computers.
- drangus ( @drangus@lemmy.ca ) English13•1 year ago
The Linux handheld
- atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
Speaking of…Lenovo announced the Legion Go handheld. Can we put Linux on it?
- selokichtli ( @selokichtli@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
It’s very likely. But why buy a Lenovo handheld? They are shit at customer service, they are terrible at updating their software, they preferably don’t contribute back to Linux. I have a fabulous Lenovo tablet that was updated once, and the update was shit, a terrible experience, they didn’t release the source code to build the required kernel modules for it to be usable. The firmware had to be modded as hell to prevent it to be a very expensive brick.
- Mio ( @Mio@feddit.nu ) 5•1 year ago
Not until you can actually choose it. Think if you could in the store see Linux Desktop to buy and to try out.
What if EU forced computer manufactures to install both OS, Windows and Linux Desktop, and you had to choose during the first boot what you want to use. Trust me, the that will change the numbers, just because of all who picked the wrong one by mistake.
- Yoru ( @Yoru@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
hint: the wrong one is Windows.
- bitwolf ( @bitwolf@lemmy.one ) 4•1 year ago
Is it for me this year. Both the main and couch gaming rigs are on Linux now. Glad to be free
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English16•1 year ago
I wish librewolf had a toggle for its user agent. The default user agent is windows and you can’t change it without extensions
- kugiyasan ( @kugiyasan@lemmy.one ) 10•1 year ago
Welp I’m of those “windows” users then 😉
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•1 year ago
What I want to know is how many people are using Librewolf on Linux. I imagine it isnt’t a small number
- Contend6248 ( @Contend6248@feddit.de ) 1•1 year ago
One of the things i give my privacy up to, representing Linux to make a change.
- 601error ( @601error@lemmy.ca ) English13•1 year ago
Seriously considering swapping over to my Linux partition as main and virtualizing the Windows side this weekend. Still need the Windows because well, I make Windows software.
- Phoenixz ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 10•1 year ago
There are no longer just 5 of us! There are now 6 of us, YES!
- Mio ( @Mio@feddit.nu ) 9•1 year ago
That is very little and propably due to steam deck.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
Which is not a desktop.
- BigNote ( @BigNote@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
You say that like it’s a bug, not a feature.
- Chinstrap ( @chinstrap@lemmy.ml ) English8•1 year ago
Clear victory
- Deanne ( @deanne@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 2•1 year ago
wow i didn’t expect that would be the case for us lol
- spiderman ( @spiderman@ani.social ) English1•1 year ago
Didn’t think that the difference would be way lesser in India!
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
I wonder what unknown is.