Are we sure these are desktops like Ubuntu or something a little bit miscategorized, like Android or ChromeOS?
android and chromeOS are usually excluded, but steam decks are included
Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
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Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#32Are we sure these are desktops like Ubuntu or something a little bit miscategorized, like Android or ChromeOS?
If it included Android, the numbers would be way higher. Android is over 70% of mobiles worldwide, and mobiles outnumber desktops by 2 to 1.
Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#33how do they meausre this?
I mean, is it counting distro hopping fresh installs?
or simultanous concurrent running sessions (telemetry hell) ?
Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#34Microsoft seems determined to push people away from Windows with its user-hostile tactics—built-in ads, constant nagging about Edge, and forced OneDrive backups. It's really soured my experience. I’m done with Windows personally. While I have to use Win11 at work, I won't use it anywhere I have a choice.
I finally made the switch earlier this year after realizing just how good Steam Proton is for gaming on Linux. Day-to-day computing on Linux is just so nice compared to Windows. It doesn't feel like I'm fighting with the OS anymore; the machine actually serves me now, instead of it constantly trying to undermine my intentions.
Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use Mac as my personal system and used Linux for many years. Yet all this Mac and Linux experience is part of the reason I didn’t hesitate to have two Windows machines: one for work, one for light gaming. Windows isn’t that bad. I use it the way most folks probably do: just a way to get to the application I need. I don’t notice most of the ads. It works. Its auto-update mechanism is better than the Mac’s. I don’t l…
> its auto-update mechanism is better than the Mac’s. Wow, what can a Mac auto-update do that is worse than Windows blocking your screen for 10 minutes during a Powerpoint presentation because the OS is «updating itself». (The only auto-update I know to be worse than Windows is Telsa's, bricking your car in the middle of the road for 45 minutes if you missclick on the touchscreen in traffic)
And yet, my Windows machine somehow applies a simple heuristic to figure out my active times and always does the updates when I'm not typically using it. Of course, it means the machine has to be on during those times, but I've never had the update in the middle of the day problem you've described. At least not as long as Windows 10 has been around.
Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#36Microsoft seems determined to push people away from Windows with its user-hostile tactics—built-in ads, constant nagging about Edge, and forced OneDrive backups. It's really soured my experience. I’m done with Windows personally. While I have to use Win11 at work, I won't use it anywhere I have a choice.
> built-in ads, constant nagging about Edge, and forced OneDrive backups
I must be using it wrong because I don't have any of those things.
Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#37Maybe this 4.5% is just the technical crowd?
Now that windows UX is getting shittier, if there's a linux distro usuable without ever pulling up a terminal, maybe linux has some chance with non technical people.
Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use Mac as my personal system and used Linux for many years. Yet all this Mac and Linux experience is part of the reason I didn’t hesitate to have two Windows machines: one for work, one for light gaming. Windows isn’t that bad. I use it the way most folks probably do: just a way to get to the application I need. I don’t notice most of the ads. It works. Its auto-update mechanism is better than the Mac’s. I don’t l…
> its auto-update mechanism is better than the Mac’s. Wow, what can a Mac auto-update do that is worse than Windows blocking your screen for 10 minutes during a Powerpoint presentation because the OS is «updating itself». (The only auto-update I know to be worse than Windows is Telsa's, bricking your car in the middle of the road for 45 minutes if you missclick on the touchscreen in traffic)
> 10 minutes
I guess I have never seen Windows update take 10 minutes. Did you add the restart time into that? Because the restart after an update usually takes half of that alone.
10 minutes is around the login time for new user at my work computers. (That is, after it is fully booted and loaded, just the time for the user to log in.)
But yeah, the Mac updates aren't even remotely as bad as Windows.
Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#39That 3.1% -> 4.5% -> 5% would be a very large acceleration from the previous trend.
Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
#40One of these years, it'll be the year of the Linux desktop. Just you wait.
In the DPRK, it already is the year of the Linux Desktop.