For as long as I can remember it’s always hovered around 4-5%. Even 5% seemed like a magical number to cross. To see it hit double digits in a span of a few months is crazy. I wonder how they’re gathering the stats for this? What gave Linux a boost. Surely it wasn’t the Steam Machines by themselves that caused this boost.
Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
Submitted 12 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to linux@sh.itjust.works
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JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 11 hours ago
keimevo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
- Linux now run games well, and 2) new computers are expensive, but Windows run like poop on old computers.
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Did you know Proton is 8 years old? Steam launched on Linux in 2013. Gaming on Linux is a 10+ year old endeavor at this point. I remember the days of Steam barely running through Wine and before Lutris and Bottles and Heroic.
The part about old Windows PCs running like shit has been true going back to like Windows 95 when I first started using computers. Building PCs as opposed to buying a pre-built has always been a $1000+ venture for me.
There’s something else happening here. If I had to guess, everything being mentioned plays a factor into it but the zeitgeist surrounding Linux has finally shifted far enough away from being for nerds and terminal only mode to being “user friendly” enough for large swaths of people to switch. More than that though is the privacy issues with AI and Age verification. That seems more pertinent amongst Windows switchers than ‘gaming is good.’ Nobody want’s to be bombarded by Copilot all the time.
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
What gave Linux a boost.
My guess is summer. Perhaps people waited until they have more time to switch from Windows to Linux. And holiday means less work computers – which are all Windows machines – being used.
Cloudflare Radar also shows a sudden jump from 3.5% to 5.5% from June 15 to June 29. It has since come down to 3.9%, which is still about 0.6 percent points higher than previous average.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Im guessing it was Microsoft shooting itself on the balls over and over
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I think it’s due to how easy it is to set up now if you have a decent AI model to chat with. All the IT is taken care of if you ask the right questions. Instead of having to scour forums that may or may not have your answer, now you have an IT guy in a box who can take care of pretty much everything for you.
Jiral@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You don’t need an LLM to setup Linux, it is as easy, possibly even easier than setting up Windows 11. While LLMs can provide some help in troubleshooting, they can be just as wrong. If you think they can’t be, quite frequently actually, you are living a dangerous life.
zedgeist@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This graphic just flexing on BSD at 0% for no reason
merc@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Yeah, there are presumably also 0% running BeOS, 0% on Microsoft DOS, 0% on OS/2…
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Those are no longer being developed. OpenBSD is.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I wasn’t expecting this. Wow, 10.65% is awesome growth!
gs.statcounter.com/…/north-america
Worldwide: 7.61%
gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/…/worldwide
Nice! Let’s keep it up!
Aaron@lemmy.nz 8 hours ago
Outside of US, and I just switched an old laptop (backup school device for kids) and my secondary computer that couldn’t be upgraded to windows 11 (so no longer receiving security updates) to Linux Mint in the past week. I’m a normie, and the process was simple even for me. Over the weekend we’ve tested a couple games on the secondary computer and while they didn’t run as well, they ran. Doing some more gaming this morning under the guide of “testing” haha
So far everything has been easier than Windows, I was very impressed as last time I tried (I think 2015ish I tried Ubuntu?) it was not nearly this easy. Everything just worked: third party controllers, USB devices, etc all connected immediately. The only issue I ran into was the sound in one game cutting out randomly from time to time? Not sure why, didn’t take time to diagnose.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Won´t be too long before EU governments and corporations stop handing their information over to Trump’s surveillance state as a matter of routine; several governments and privacy-focused businesses (hospitals especially) are planning to transition off of Microsoft to Linux.
modem_down@thebrainbin.org 12 hours ago
OS X has a higher share than macOS?!
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I will never stop calling it osx.
modem_down@thebrainbin.org 11 hours ago
A young'un! Macintosh, surely.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
This post concerns Desktop marketshare, and I believe the OP got it from the following link:
merc@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
modem_down@thebrainbin.org 11 hours ago
ChromeOS uses a Linux kernel, so one could say desktop Linux usage is >12%.
brax@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
As long as it never becomes mainstream we’re good.
grandma@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Would like to get some confirmation from other sources before I start huffing the hopium. I’m afraid they could just be AI scrapers
alt_xa_23@midwest.social 8 hours ago
I wonder what the division between win10 and win11 is
Horsey@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
≈70% are on win 11. The rest are on other windows versions according to statscounter. When I look other places, it’s about the same.
olafurp@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They stopped reporting “unknown”? I want to know the absolute number also. It was 20% unknown for June.
methanemoose@lemmus.org 9 hours ago
I finally made the move. It’s been great so far. Might accidentally convert 3 of my friends old computers into my home computer lab. Seems to be a slippery slope.
iceberg314@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Hehe me too! I made the switch in January and convinced two of my friends to switch over completely too and they’ve stuck with it
merc@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
You have old computers that are friends?