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Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)
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[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 180 points 10 months ago

Okay, I guess I'll say it. Year of Linux Desktop!

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago

Every year from now until the end of time.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 49 points 10 months ago

I will never get tired of Year of Linux Desktopping!

[-] PenguinLover@lemmy.ml 30 points 10 months ago

So every year till 2038. XD

explanation

[-] simple@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

Whew, I was getting worried we were one day into 2024 and nobody said this yet.

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Next year is the year of IPv6!

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[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 108 points 10 months ago

This is very good. The higher those numbers go, the more pressure there will be for better official support for both HW and SW.

FOSS is fantastic. But lack of options (FOSS or paid) for a few of my use cases keeps me stapled to Windows and WSL. Unfortunately. I'm hoping the momentum shifts.

[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

If literally any Adobe competitor released a product for Linux they'd dominate that niche.

[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago

I tend to agree. And people need to realize that Adobe's secret sauce is not in their apps, it's in the multi-device interoperability. I love lightroom, but it's not the photo editing ability (darkroom has that), rather it's the fact that I can seamlessly work the same catalogue from any device (even if I don't use their cloud for anything but smart previews).

I think Adobe would cash in if they supported Linux - for want of a workable alternative, I'd even pay them.

Music device manufacturers need to support Linux too. NI Maschine (and others) is simply a non-starter...

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[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 104 points 10 months ago

I mean, it's no secret that the SteamDeck is a huge reason why. Praise Gaben, may we game on every platform equally.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've seriously been writing down the pros and cons thinking about switching over to Linux on my main desktop at home. It covers all the games I play now. I was very surprised.

Without the games to hold me back, I don't see why I wouldn't.

Follow Up: I'm on Linux mint! And my two favorite Windows games work just fine with zero configuration with Steam.

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[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 90 points 10 months ago

When I was part of the KDE marketing working group, we always talked about 5% being the magic number. If we hit that, then the avalanche of ported and supported third party software starts. It's a weird chicken and egg thing. Looks like we're close!

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[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

3.82% is actually pretty damn good. And if Windows 12 pushes us into a subscription model I can see that gap rising.

Also, if/when DirectX gets native Linux support, or DXVK/VKD3D matches the API in performance, that'll be it.

Personally I'm thanking Valve for this.

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[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 69 points 10 months ago

Wowzer, ok, that's seriously impressive though, like in 2022 I feel we were stuck at 2-2.5% and in 2023 we passed 3% for the first time and now we're at almost 4????? That's like DOUBLING the market share in a year

[-] balancedchaos@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

I was thinking the same thing. We've actually surpassed Apple on desktop. I know we're gonna laughingly say "year of the Linux desktop," but we have to honestly look how far we've come in a relatively short time.

[-] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

mac has over 16% though, we still aren't even close

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[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 58 points 10 months ago

My journey to Linux pretty much started with the reddit thing. I moved to Lemmy and started slowly eliminating corporations out of my life.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 54 points 10 months ago

2024 YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 10 months ago
[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago

indias growth is so important, it's such a dense country so growth will be rapidly exponential unlike 95℅ of other countries. it's the perfect mixing pot of technologically literate, dense, money conscious, and distrustful of western influence for linux to thrive in. once india is dominated by linux, it will expand outwards so fast.

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[-] zxk@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

It was me checking out all the distros

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[-] ChewTiger@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

I switched my gaming PC to Linux two months ago and I'm loving it. I've only had to boot my Windows drive twice.

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[-] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago
[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

*sigh* 2024 will be the year of Linux on the desktop...

[-] HalfAHero@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

I just installed Linux on a six-year-old budget laptop this morning. My first time using Linux. What was a uselessly slow machine is now just humming along.

I'm doing my part!

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[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 31 points 10 months ago

I am not saying “This is the Year of the Linux Desktop”. That said, things languished below 2% for decades and now it has doubled in just over a year. With the state of Linux Gaming, I could see that happening again.

Also, if ChromeOS continues to converge, you could consider it a Linux distro at some point and it also has about 4% share.

Linux could exceed 10% share this year and be a clear second after Windows.

That leaves me wondering, what percentage do we have to hit before it really is “The Year of the Linux Desktop”. I have never had to wonder that before ( I mean, it obviously was not 3% ). Having to ask is a milestone in itself.

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[-] danileonis@lemmy.ml 28 points 10 months ago
[-] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago

At least two dozens of us

[-] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

I use Linux (Arch actually) as my daily driver - I'm the MD of a small IT business in the UK. I have at least one employee who is asking me to create a Linux standard deployment to replace Windows because they don't like it anymore - W11 is quite divisive.

For a corp laptop/desktop you might need Exchange email - so that might be Evolution with EWS. You'll want "drive letters" - Samba, Winbind and perhaps autofs. You'll need an office suite - Libre Office works fine. There's this too: https://cid-doc.github.io/ for more MS integration - if that's your bag.

I often see people getting whizzed up about whether LO can compete with MSO. I wrote a finite (yes, finite) capacity scheduler for a factory in MS Excel, back in 1995/6 - it involved a lot of VBA and a mass of checksums etc. I used to teach word processing and DTP (Quark, Word, Ventura and others). LO cuts it. It gets on my nerves when I'm told that LO isn't capable by someone who is incapable of fixing a widow or orphan or for whom leading and kerning are incomprehensible.

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[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

For me the turning point was when a failed Windows forced upgrade ended up deleting me important files. I had backups, but I lost days of work because Microsoft felt so insecure in the face of piracy that they had to upgrade my computer despite me constantly telling them not to do so.

That was around 10 years ago. I went through various KDE distros; in the end I settled for Kubuntu.

The recent developments in KDE plasma are excellent. I haven't had to open a command prompt in years. I hadn't had a tech problem until this year when my tmp folder got full.

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[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

I suspect that it's not Linux that is on the rise, but overall PC market that is shrinking. It's been a trend for quite a while for non-linux people to dump the PC entirely in favor of using just phone.

The desktop/mobile ratio chart aligns with this

https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobile-tablet

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[-] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago

Let’s go! It’s always great to see people wrestle control back from the corporations.

[-] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

I wonder if that dip in Windows in April, going down to like 62%, and the correlated boost for "Uknown" operating systems to 13% might somehow simply be Windows not being recognized properly and categorized as unknown?

It seems a bit far-fetched to me that a bunch of Windows users would for 1 month suddenly all decide to use ReactOS, FreeDOS, BSD, Solaris, Illumos, Haiku, Redox, and Plan 9.

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[-] DannyMac@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

On my laptop, I've switched to Linux since, despite being built in 2017, doesn't meet Win 11's min requirements. This is horseshit, I don't care how MS explains it or justifies it, there's nothing wrong with it. I'm sure during development, they realized a 20 year old computer could run Win 11 and decided to make up requirements to force people into buying new PCs.

Anyway, I'm using KDE Neon and I'm loving its ease of use and simplicity. I have barely needed to dive into the terminal to fix anything and KDE Plasma feels very polished and user friendly. To me, it feels like the new "normie-friendly" Linux. And without the horseshit telemetry and Microsoft spying, it's like a brand new PC.

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[-] 69420@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago
date '+%Y is the year of the Linux desktop'
[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I just ditched my old Windows 10 PC for a raspberry pi 5, and am running KDE Plasma.

It's refreshing to have an operating system that doesn't suggestive sell to me.

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