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.
Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
Submitted 1 month ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to linux@sh.itjust.works
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methanemoose@lemmus.org 1 month ago
iceberg314@slrpnk.net 1 month 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 1 month ago
You have old computers that are friends?
methanemoose@lemmus.org 1 month ago
You happy?/jokingly
I edited my post to not have that relic of an adhd subject change mid writing a sentence. I can literally spend an hour thinking everything is wrong, or I get on with my life. I seriously felt bad about this one, which is why I did change it.
Btw upvote for calling out the poorly written sentence. No calling me the more stupider-est dumbdumb.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
iocase@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
One tip I can give you is never skip shader compilation. If you do, then Vulkan compiles shaders on-the-fly which causes lag spikes and stuttering. If you let it compile then it pulls from a shader cache or RAM.
modem_down@thebrainbin.org 1 month ago
OS X has a higher share than macOS?!
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I will never stop calling it osx.
modem_down@thebrainbin.org 1 month ago
A young'un! Macintosh, surely.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This post concerns Desktop marketshare, and I believe the OP got it from the following link:
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
zedgeist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This graphic just flexing on BSD at 0% for no reason
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, there are presumably also 0% running BeOS, 0% on Microsoft DOS, 0% on OS/2…
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Those are no longer being developed. OpenBSD is.
modem_down@thebrainbin.org 1 month ago
ChromeOS uses a Linux kernel, so one could say desktop Linux usage is >12%.
grandma@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 month ago
AI scrapers use their own user agent and for sure don’t use a browser to scrap
brax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
As long as it never becomes mainstream we’re good.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I love how everyone here(kinda including me too) is eating up bs willingly cause we hate windows so much. Its obviously not at 10%
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Why is that obvious?
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hey, friend, why the hate? Can’t someone love Linux without hating other operating systems?
Also, if you feel there’s a better source for capturing statistics on desktop OS usage in North America, please don’t be shy to share it with the rest of us!
I believe the source for what the OP shared is the following:
gs.statcounter.com/…/north-america
Have a great one!
alt_xa_23@midwest.social 1 month ago
I wonder what the division between win10 and win11 is
Horsey@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
They stopped reporting “unknown”? I want to know the absolute number also. It was 20% unknown for June.
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 1 month ago
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.
keimevo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
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.
radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupB…
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Im guessing it was Microsoft shooting itself on the balls over and over
Thalfon@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This was the case for me last summer. Waited until the start of break so if anything went wrong it wouldn’t be too much of a nightmare. Wouldn’t be too shocked if others took similar opportunity. Depends a bit how many people have any sort of proper summer holiday these days though.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month 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.