Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share • Hacker News Board

hulitu wrote: post #17

MBCook wrote: post #4

> While someone may seem the figure modest, it signifies a growing acceptance and recognition of the power and versatility of Linux. Does it? It’s 3%. If it was 15% or 20% maybe you could say that. It’s less than “unknown” and less than ChromeOS which is just over 4%. If it wasn’t a round number, I don’t think anyone would ever write this article because the number is just too small. It’s nice that it seems to be gro…

Who uses ChromeOS ? Here in EU I haven't seen or heard anyone using this.

From a quick search on online stores, it seems Chromebooks are not that rare, there's your answer pretty much

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by jacknews » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 5:35 AM UTC

The problem is the desktop situation is such a mess. Do you go with a gtk or qt desktop and which one? And then X11 which is ancient and creaky, or wayland which is fatally nerfed in design (if not it's entire development philosophy) even when it does do what you need which is far from always?

OTOH windows is becoming adware/spyware and macos is becoming big brother lockdown-wear, so maybe it is time for linux to shine.

Personally windows (actually, almost anything microsoft) enrages me anytime I'm unfortunate enough to have to use it, and I'm getting increasingly annoyed at macos limitations and won't be buying apple again, so my next machine will run linux.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by locusofself » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 5:35 AM UTC

photonbeam wrote: post #18

genmud wrote: post #2

Probably 70 or 80% of cloud workloads are Linux, and like 60% of embedded devices, of which there are billions. And of those embedded/mobile devices, the rest will either be running iOS, vxworks, freertos or zephyr. I think the joke has always been "this is the year of Linux", but in all honesty... it's the decade of Linux. It's probably one of the few areas where there is growth in computing capacity and by far most…

Are there really 20-30% of cloud workloads not on Linux? What do they do? Who uses them?

I work at Microsoft and I see so much "cloud" Windows. Some of it is running Kubernetes even. But a lot Azure is Windows VMs orchestrated by "Service Fabric".

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by matdehaast » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 5:35 AM UTC

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #32

Don't know, it used to be 100% in my company in 2007 and now it is like 80% because there are some iOS developers who need macOS and designers who use Sketch, which is insanely great and which alone is worth buying an alApple computer and suffering macOS to run it.

Have you used Figma? Feels like sketch got stuck in the Stone Age quickly once Figma made a performant browser based design tool

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by notorandit » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 5:36 AM UTC

Funny, isn't it?

> 3% [of the] desktop market share

How do you spell "90%() of the server market share"? And I don't dare talking about mobile and embedded devices

() my very own guesstimate

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by DiabloD3 » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 5:36 AM UTC

I wonder why they keep making these articles.

Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS. It is on virtually all servers on the Internet, the majority OS on phones, its in many TVs and STBs and streaming sticks, its one of the few OSes ever in space, its one of the few OSes ever on Mars, and it is also the OS behind ChromeOS (which that article mistakenly breaks out as its own numbers; so by their own admission, its at least 7%).

The largest desktop OS on that list? Windows.... made by a company who makes more money off Linux than anything else, is the largest corp contributor to Linux, and has far more Linux machines internally than Windows ones, and hires software developers who do not develop for Windows.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by ChatGTP » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 5:36 AM UTC

jacknews wrote: post #45

The problem is the desktop situation is such a mess. Do you go with a gtk or qt desktop and which one? And then X11 which is ancient and creaky, or wayland which is fatally nerfed in design (if not it's entire development philosophy) even when it does do what you need which is far from always? OTOH windows is becoming adware/spyware and macos is becoming big brother lockdown-wear, so maybe it is time for linux to shi…

Been using for 15 years, I've never sat there and worried about gtk or qt, Maybe wayland or X11, but I've just naturally moved to wayland?

Just install something like Fedora, and you won't worry about it, it will just work.

I personally hate Ubuntu btw Canonical is just not for me. I have no idea how it's so popular. Personally Fedora or NixOS are just so superior I don't know why anyone bothers with anything else.