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I could totally see Linux hitting 5+ percent market share for desktops on the next couple years
by peanut_worm 5y ago
I could totally see Linux hitting 5+ percent market share for desktops on the next couple years
- sylens 5y agoI think at this point I just need a Google Drive client. 1Password is already there, Obsidian is there, I'm ready to go
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoInSync? Not first party, but I heard everywhere it's really good.
- Karsteski 5y agoI've been using it for the past year. Works perfectly find, no complaints. Definitely worth the $40CAD I paid,even if I plan to move away from Google Drive in the near future
- duncanawoods 5y agoI used InSync with a mounted drive. I rebooted and it ran before the drive mounted and deleted my entire online google drive contents and then deleted the local files when the drive mounted. The google UI is such garbage that you can't undelete 1000s of files so I had to write a script against it's API that ran for a few days restoring everything. Sucked.
- wyufro 5y agoUbuntu supports Google Drive out of the box, it appears in the file manager. Probably it's Gnome doing the actual work, I haven't really bothered to learn it well.
- sylens 5y agoWas not aware of this, interesting
- lights0123 5y agoIf you want client, not necessarily sync, GNOME has it built-in. It'll mount your Drive using FUSE.
- sneak 5y agoWhy would you run Linux and use Google Drive? If you don't care about FAAN(M)G reading your data and activity, Windows is simpler and has better compatibility.
- sylens 5y agoConsider that I may use a tool like Google Drive for a subset of data that I don't feel is particularly sensitive or identifying in nature
- sneak 5y agoYou can't use Google Drive without providing identifying information (a phone number or a payment card) to Google.
- coolspot 5y agoEncFS over GDrive/Dropbox is great!
- ajsnigrutin 5y ago2022, year of linux on the desktop!
- peanut_worm 5y agoFor once it might be!
- austinshea 5y agoI doubt it. Desktop computers haven’t been relevant since 2008ish, and were struggling to maintain relevance after the 4th gen Intel GPU/Power-consumption changes. Headless servers and consumer electronics are, already, largely using Linux.
- symlinkk 5y agoGo to Twitch.tv, everyone there will be on gaming PCs.
- throwaway2048 5y agodesktops are effectively the only thing people play PC games on.
- stinkytaco 5y agoIf anything, this is the reason Linux could hit that point. Desktops are increasingly for specialized applications: gaming, development, content production, etc. If you just need general consumption, you probably have a tablet or phone. I could absolutely see Linux hitting 5% just because people who would never use Linux have stopped using a computer at all.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoAnd yet we just went through a massive GPU shortage suggesting Desktop is alive and well. Do we have any recent industry stats on this?
- MMS21 5y agoHave you not heard of the crypto miners buying up all GPUs
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoIt is a factor. It is hard for me to argue that it did not have significant impact and I don't really have hard data. That said, all the people in my circle with remote jobs upgraded their desktops or lappies. It cannot be an insignificant number given initial pandemic panic and current delta resurgence. And between China cracking down on bitcoin ( check 3060s prices there and you will be left wondering why the prices did not drop significantly here ), Treasury issuing crypto guidance on ransomware payments, and eth moving to POS, it is harder and harder to blame crypto miners. Frankly, they sound like convenient scapegoat. I won't go into details, but I had the option of buying 3070 yesterday and 3090 2 weeks ago. I passed on both precisely due to recent uncertainty.
- nivenkos 5y agoI've been using it at work the last 6 months. Only issue I've hit was Tableau Desktop has no Linux support (but hopefully we can migrate to Looker, as Tableau sucks anyway).
- 015a 5y agoI'll go on the record and say above 5% by December 31st 2022. Depending on who you ask, its at ~2% today. If that feels high to you, remember: it includes Chromebooks. As it grows, you'll absolutely hear people say "Chromebooks" or "Steam Decks should be their own category, they don't count". These arguments effectively reduce to "Linux cannot be popular, so I'll move the goalposts so it never is." Ignore them, and pour cement around the goalposts: running a distribution of gnu/linux. Of course, if all we cared about was the "linux" part of gnu/linux, then its already the most popular operating system kernel in use by mankind. Its already won.
- faho 5y ago>Of course, if all we cared about was the "linux" part of gnu/linux, then its already the most popular operating system kernel in use by mankind. Its already won. Except the "linux" part matters to the actual user not one bit. Android is a fairly walled garden no matter what kernel it uses. It's an implementation detail.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoI'm curious as to why should the Steam Deck be in its own category. To me, it runs a mainstream, open and not-locked-down Linux distro. I could see an argument for Chromebooks being in their own category, but the Steam Deck, in my eyes, is a legitimate "full" Linux device.
- bicolao 5y agoBranding is important and an ordinary person (I think) will hear more about Steam Deck than Linux. And it makes sense that it's in its own category (or rather, game console category) because it's made for that purpose. The fact that you can do whatever you want with the HW is just a bonus. PS. Nice user name. But why pair those two? :D
- kaladin-jasnah 5y ago> Branding is important and an ordinary person (I think) will hear more about Steam Deck than Linux Fair point, I say. But people will know that KDE and Linux exist a bit more now, since they're kinda intertwined. > PS. Nice user name. But why pair those two? :D You're the first one to notice! And I paired them since if they married at the end of arc 1, it'd be the the most satisfying ending for me. And also, their mental states and stuff seem to be weirdly aligned, so I feel like they'd be the best fit for each other. It's also what I feel that pairing is the one that the least number of people would expect (:
- legohead 5y agowhy would anyone other than programmers/devops/IT pros have anything to do with Linux?
- jakogut 5y agoIt doesn't spy on you. It gives you freedom of choice when it comes to desktop environment, and what software you run. It's not developed by anti-competitive tech giants.
- KaoruAoiShiho 5y agowhy would anyone other than programmers/devops/IT pros have anything to do with Linux?
- samtheDamned 5y agoI could see it becoming big with pc gamers for how much you can tweak the OS itself to eek out as much performance as you can get. They also tend to want to personalize their PCs a lot and with linux they'd have a whole new level to that with the customizability of the desktop experience itself.
- superkuh 5y agoNot if Epic keeps buying independent video games that support linux, saying they won't change anything, then 6 months later removing linux as a playable platform (rocket league). That they're trying to develop a linux anti-cheat does not indicate they will actually support linux. It doesn't even indicate they won't actively kill linux games as their long history proves.