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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
- sylware 1y agoI still wonder how they can know that reliably. elf/linux distros are hardly pre-installed on PCs and forced upon users.
- btreecat 1y agoFTA >According to the latest StatCounter Global Stats for June 2025, Linux now holds 5.03% of the desktop operating system market share in the United United States of America. This is fantastic news!
- ghc 1y agoThat...does not answer his query.
- ssgodderidge 1y agoLooks like they track site traffic. [1] > Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device. For our search engine stats, we analyze every page view referred by a search engine. For our social media stats, we analyze every page view referred by a social media site. We summarize all this data to get our Global Stats information. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago> I still wonder how they can know that reliably. I think the general conclusion is that they don't know it reliably; notice the other comments in this thread pointing out that the numbers jump up and down more or less every time they're measured.
- theandrewbailey 1y agoI work in the refurb division of an e-waste recycling company. Due to licensing costs and our certifications, we can't sell anything with Windows. My coworkers install Ubuntu, but I install Linux Mint. We don't have any clue if people keep using Linux or install Windows, but it's cool to think we're helping to move this needle. Edit: might as well link to the merch: https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling
- tossandthrow 1y agoMy intuition is that most people, unless they have specific needs, just keep it. Most people likely don't have an opinion besides being able to browse the web and will not even be aware that they are not using Windows. So this is great work! Keep it up!
- whizzter 1y agoI think this plays a huge part, is it elders/poorer/others that receive these machines? A new machine for an enterprise or gamer will probably retain windows because it's needed but people not using their computers for more than surfing will be happy enough. On that side-note I would also not be surprised if people are leaving "computers" altogether in favor of phones, it's a capable enough computer today for most lay-people, my ex and her parents don't have computers anymore and my daughter hardly uses her either. Those that actually need computers such as developers are more prone to use Linux anyhow (especially when Microsoft is pushing annoying features such as forced reboots for those dropping their computers anyhow onto powerusers).
- fsflover 1y agoSome related earlier discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41312883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41312883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600172
- owebmaster 1y agoWow! That's a day growth actually. What happened? Is it Steam OS?
- owebmaster 1y ago*great. Can't edit this comment, strange.
- iLoveOncall 1y agoI don't believe this number for even a second.
- Fade_Dance 1y agoI have literally never seen a Linux desktop in the wild. Speaking as a "normal" person who occasionally builds PCs for friends, fixes family computers, etc. I have an old ThinkPad with Linux, but agreed, no way this can be true.
- fsflover 1y agoI installed Linux for my non-technial relatives and they happily browse the web and use LibreOffice.
- CalRobert 1y agoMy wife works at a Dutch company where they all run Ubuntu (mostly because they’re frugal)
- ahartmetz 1y agoI'm not particularly surprised anymore to see Linux on people's laptops in public, usually while travelling (you don't usually see people using laptops in public much otherwise). That is mostly in Germany where I live. Linux is, of course, also very common in universities.
- Fade_Dance 1y agoThe article is on the US statistic though. If it was a global statistic it wouldn't surprise me at all. When it comes to laptops, we have a lot of MacBooks out there, and an endless Sea of $400 low quality Lenovos and HPs eternally marching to the garbage bins. Ultimately my observation is just anecdotal, but I have built a lot of computers for people worked on a lot of family PCS, etc, and have never once worked with a Linux system in that context in 25 years of doing that stuff. I'm not interacting with a tech oriented crowd though (obviously those people would be chatting about tech instead and I would never be touching their system). Perhaps the tech oriented crowd is big enough to hit 5%, or perhaps Linux gaming is moving the needle, but I can't imagine 1 in 20 system is Linux in the US. I just can't.
- Symmetry 1y agoThat's twice the number Valve reports for Steam users which includes a lot of Steam Decks that come with Linux installed, so it seems high, I would have guessed somewhere in the 1 to 2 percent range. In some countries you have mass Linux deployments to schools or government IT systems that could give you a number like this but I'm not sure what could be driving it in the US.
- fghjl 1y agoI assume the problems still are that (1) no Desktop Linux is at the level of macOS or Windows, and (2) the only one close is still RedHat, but most want Debian-based or something else. MacOS is the best model for a successful desktop Linux to use. Trim down the kernel/drivers to just what runs on that spec hardware, only support that spec hardware, focus effort on the OS and ecosystem, keep it stable, make upgrades trivial, and give it freedom to run other software, terminal apps, etc. And most of all- focus resources on these efforts and charge a lot of money for it!
- bitmasher9 1y agoI’d argue desktop Linux passed “the level of windows” sometime around Windows 8 or KDE5. I have way more stability issues and complicated upgrades on Windows.
- redeeman 1y agoin 2003 it was WAY easier to install linux than windows. You had to mess with floppys for sata drivers and shit to install windows. and KDE was always ATLEAST as easy as windows, arguably more. At this time lots of older crappy hardware people had also only had win98 drivers, giving people immense problems. It mostly worked better on linux. This still goes today.
- akho 1y agoThat was long true by that time. On supported hardware, and if you don’t need applications that are not on Linux, it was fine in the first Ubuntu releases at least. (in comparison with the state of Windows at the time, of course)
- andyferris 1y agoI have to ask - what OS do AI-training web scrapers tend to report? (A mixture? One with > 5% linux market share? Sorry, being a sceptic, otherwise I think this is fantastic news if accurately measured).
- triknomeister 1y agoAnything that's automated today is linux. So, I'll assume almost 99.99%, or may be BSD in some cases.
- baal80spam 1y agoSo basically the 5% number is pulled out of thin air.
- input_sh 1y agoAny scraper out there that doesn't want to identify itself as such is very likely to spoof the most commonly used OS + browser combo (Chrome + Windows), regardless of what it's actually running on.
- Nab443 1y agoI tend to think that they mostly should be using their own user agent, and if not be desguised as the most common ones to avoid being detected too easily. Web scaping probably has been mostly running under Linux before the age of AI anyway. I'm not in the field, so if anyone more trustworthy info on that...
- eloisant 1y agoYes they run Linux, but they either have their own user agent (not included in the stats) or are spoofing a real world web browser... In which case they might be spoofing Chrome on Windows even if they run on Linux. Either way I don't think the 5% are impacted by scraping bots.
- viraptor 1y agoNone https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots There's no reason for those bots to report any specific OS
- dosinga 1y agoIf you zoom out to say the last 10 years you can see that those graphs go up and down like crazy. The error bars on these numbers must be huge.
- ahartmetz 1y agoYeah. A critical mass is needed and we seem to be there, but keeping it a system for "power users and up" (and for total laypeople but managed by others) is also desirable.
- pessimizer 1y agoLinux now has a bigger desktop marketshare than firefox. I never would have imagined history would turn out like this. Firefox had the easy job and desktop Linux had the hard one. This will lead to a virtuous circle for Linux unless someone does something; privacy issues are leading people to the OSes where you get to freely choose your level of privacy. Anybody have any more weird old unix patents to throw at them and slow it down? edit: maybe the way to stop Linux is heat up the war against all general purpose computing. Linux could be used to run unauthorized AI.
- goku12 1y agoI came to say this as well. The market share of Linux in the US is 5.03%, while the same for Firefox is 4.23%! [1] It's not an apples to apples comparison. But the userbase is largely the same, and it's easier to switch a browser than it's to switch an OS. So it does have a significance. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-states-of-america https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-s...
- Shorel 1y ago> Linux now has a bigger desktop marketshare than firefox. This means many Linux users install an alternative browser, not to use Firefox. That's funny, but so true.
- AuthAuth 1y agoBrowser selection is a heated topic in linux land just like text editors and window managers.
- theowhfbfn 1y agoIs SteamOS included? I am not really surprised. Linux is quite often only usable option, now when Win 10 is not really supported.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoWhy not use Win 11?
- malfist 1y agoBecause it's actively user hostile? Microsoft shoving their spyware and unwelcome AI into it regardless of consent
- lvass 1y agoFor video games as of today, SteamOS presents double digit performance gains on average over Windows, running Windows games on Steam Deck and similar platforms.
- dmantis 1y ago1. Ads 2. Built-in cloud AI spyware / Copilot 3. Millions of abandoned laptops that had been made 4-5+ years ago. Basically electronic and ecological waste: machines from 10 years ago work perfectly fine if you change thermal paste and don't hit them too much. Even if you don't care about the planet, you might care about your wallet though.
- pndy 1y ago3 is especially ironic with that green leaf and energy recommendations slapped in settings
- seabrookmx 1y agoBecause there's lots of good hardware out there that's unsupported by Windows 11, but supported just fine by Linux distros.
- theanonymousone 1y agoI can't think of any logical reason to exclude ChromeOS and count it separately,and a good portion of the "Unknown" category may as well be Linux. The "real" number shouldn't be far from 10%, if not already exceeding it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago> I can't think of any logical reason to exclude ChromeOS and count it separately Because virtually nobody who says "desktop Linux" means ChromeOS.
- theanonymousone 1y agoAnd that's (almost) as wrong as saying BSD is not Unix
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoSo here's the thing. Chrome OS is absolutely a Linux distribution. It's even a GNU/Linux distribution (based on Gentoo), unlike say Android/Linux, which is doing its own thing. But... When people say "desktop Linux", they mean one of the user-controlled distros, not the locked down appliance that is ChromeOS. It's like how nobody who says they want a Linux phone mean Android. Technically correct, but not what people mean.
- resource_waste 1y agoI think Fedora should be taken out too. Fedora stands alone and shouldn't be lumped in with the rest of the LinuxOS. Fedora going up is a sign of progress. Regular Linux going up is just a sign that Windows sucks.
- tgeorge 1y agoI think the Unknown category could be custom standalone devices like Playstation, FireTV, webOS, and Switch which have browsers to make those stats but could be BSD based. And, I wouldn't exclude ChromeOS also, I thought it's built off of Gentoo Linux.
- jsnell 1y agoThe statscounter data is not reliable, and it is just embarrassing how often these posts make it to the HN frontpage. You even have a demonstration in this very article, with the surge of classic Mac OS to 7% for several months. The data is obviously nonsense, and when it has errors nobody at the company cares about them. But when they have persistent "data reporting issues", why are we supposed to believe any of these numbers?
- elsjaako 1y agoNote that OS X goes down for the same period. I believe Apple is calling it MacOS now. So that looks like it might be some change in how Apple computers are reporting their OS.
- zozbot234 1y ago"mac OS" not "MacOS". MacOS is for the older pre-OS X versions.
- Longhanks 1y ago"macOS" not "mac OS", to align with "iOS", "iPadOS", "watchOS" and "tvOS".
- antipurist 1y agoIt's "macOS" [1] if you really want to be pedantic. However, it's still "Intel Mac OS X" in Safari UA even on M1 MacBook, so why Statcounter data includes both OS X and macOS remains a mystery. [1] https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia/ https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia/
- IshKebab 1y agoI don't understand why Statcounter reports them separately though. They're just two different versions of the same OS, and those are grouped for other OSes in this chart. Makes no sense.
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- sylens 1y agoThere has been noticeable momentum this year with the Windows 10 end of support date looming near and the continued enshittification of Windows 11.
- ryandv 1y agoBased on the history of the tech industry, Linux adoption should be kept at this level and advanced no further. This is already the sweet spot for the "year of the Linux desktop," which should be celebrated by experts, technical users, and the sufficiently motivated. Once the unwashed masses start coming in, the software and its interaction patterns pander to the lowest common denominator and the quality of the medium degrades.
- bboygravity 1y agoSo is this the reasoning to keep Linux as hard to use as possible? * just open the terminal and type this magic spell to make x work *
- fsflover 1y agoYou're probably talking about enshittification [0], which typically affects centralized for-profit entities, not community-based free software projects. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484
- jarredkenny 1y agois this the year of the linux desktop?
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- taf2 1y agoI play all my video games on linux - heros of the storm, sc2, warcraft 2, counter strike... very stable much nicer then what i remember from windoze...
- bboygravity 1y agoIs this because Linux became so good or because Windows 11 is so terrible? I guess a bit of both.
- IshKebab 1y agoWindows 11 is great if you install the IoT LTSC version. Better than Windows 10.
- fsflover 1y agoExcept all those perfectly working devices which aren't supported for no reason, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977038
- IshKebab 1y ago9 years of updates it not at all out of line with Mac, iOS, Android etc: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/some-macs-are-getting-fewer-updates-than-they-used-to-heres-why-its-a-problem/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/some-macs-are-gettin... Maybe a few more years would have been good but I can't really blame Microsoft for requiring modern hardware support eventually.
- nerdjon 1y agoI have to wonder how much of this is people switching to Linux vs the larger trend of people not having traditional computers to begin with. Outside of gamers, I don't know anyone that has a computer at home that is not their work laptop if they have one. At least in my circle everyone I know has moved to their general computing being on phones and tablets which is not captured here. So is a solid chunk of this the people that would have already had Linux desktops continuing to have theirs since they would likely be the same people (more technical, needing to do tasks not possible on phones and tablets) less likely to be making that switch. Basically if the higher percent is due to less desktops overall instead of a major uptick in Linux desktops, it is not really much to celebrate. Given these numbers are percents I would be very curious. Now yes there is a clear uptick thanks to the Steam Deck (however with Microsoft pushing their optimized for gaming Windows it will be interesting to see if that continues or goes backwards). But I would be reluctant to call that Linux Desktop anymore than I would call Android an uptick for Linux.
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- palata 1y agoI agree with your points, except this: > thanks to the Steam Deck [...] but I would be reluctant to call that Linux Desktop anymore than I would call Android an uptick for Linux. The Steam Deck very much runs Linux Desktop. Android runs the Linux kernel, but everything else is different. SteamOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch. If you run your Steam Deck in "desktop mode", it is very much a Linux Desktop (with a read-only system and A/B updates etc, but still).
- zozbot234 1y agoAndroid systems don't even run the linux kernel in any real sense, pretty much every downstream kernel has millions of lines of patched code that will never make it upstream in their current form. Of course, that's no different from mostly any other "Linux" embedded device, but it's very different indeed from what's standard on desktop systems.
- lvl155 1y agoI think adoption has to do with the fact that desktop environment efforts are divided across so many distros.
- resource_waste 1y agoI might be a bit contrarian on this. I think the biggest obstacle in the Linux world is people knee jerk recommending Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/outdated linux. If people rallied around the current SOTA, Fedora, we would've hit 5% a few years ago. The variety of distros cause people to get confused, and go with the most heavily marketed distros, Ubuntu flavors. Just because Ubuntu gave away free CDs 20 years ago, doesnt make them good. It makes them good at marketing. People confuse Fedora with Arch, which is terrible. People confuse Ubuntu with 'stable like a table', instead of 'outdated stable'. We almost need a reduction in favored distros. Out with the complexity: Fedora for desktop. It has all the DEs too.
- Gormo 1y agoFundamentally, Linux is Linux. Differences between distros are vastly overstated, and they mostly amount to different default selections and configurations of the same underlying components. Ultimately, anything that will run on one Linux distro will run on any other, with the only significant differences being on distros that run on unusual architectures or have made major changes to the kernel.
- resource_waste 1y agoThis is idealistic not realistic. With enough effort, this is true... but out of the box, you are going to have significantly more bugs and conflicts using outdated distros. I'd love to see a 'time in terminal' by distro. I imagine Fedora would be in the mere minutes per year, and Ubuntu in the hours per year.
- Gormo 1y agoWhat do you find "idealistic" about it? My intention was to explain reality as I see it. I'm also not sure what you mean by "outdated distros". It should be implicit that I'm referring to the currently maintained versions of available distros, not deprecated versions. And the "time in terminal" metric might not generally make sense, given the preference that many Linux users have for CLI/TUI tools over GUI ones, given the efficiency and consistency advantages of the former -- many people prefer to work in the terminal even where GUI tools for equivalent functionality are readily available.
- Workaccount2 1y agoLinux will be stuck in the 5% range as long as people who love Linux are the ones making Linux. You still cannot crtl+V in the terminal. No faster way to scare off users than give them a CLI heavy OS and have the trip over the very first copy+paste command they try to run (once they figure out the circa ~1982 cursor) I really cannot say enough about the total fumble of Linux distros in an age when people are more desperate than ever to leave Windows.
- atemerev 1y agoCtrl-C means something different in the terminal. Always has been. And if it doesn't make sense to use Ctrl-C, there is no sense in Ctrl-V either.
- pjc50 1y agoWindows lets you Ctrl-V while still mapping Ctrl-C to break.
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- resource_waste 1y agoI imagine you have only used Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/outdated linux. Fedora is a different level completely. With Fedora, I remember installing nvidia drivers via terminal, and that was essentially it. Sometimes I open up ports for my kid doing minecraft, but that was it. Its not like when you use Ubuntu or Mint and you need to manually update something just to get Netflix to work on Chromium. Fedora is so good, I won't call it linux. Linux has the Debian/Ubuntu baggage. Fedora stands alone. Its easier to use than Windows, I don't think I'm exaggerating. Windows 11 has ads, unresponsive search, UI/theme issues that make it impossible to read text, it has fake paths to files. Fedora just works.
- School-Cotton 1y agoFedora is actually older than Ubuntu. And FWIW you still can’t paste with C-v in the terminal.
- mousethatroared 1y agoFor me, Linux became a viable desktop OS when Steve Jobs killed flash and browsers could render any page independently of the OS. Then Office 365 came around and I could do quick work w/out a windows machine.
- School-Cotton 1y agoFWIW you could install Flash on Linux. It was sometimes a pain but it did work.
- mousethatroared 1y agoMassive PIA. Since flash didnt work I didnt use Linix Since I didnt use Linux I wasnt very good at it Since I kept at noob level, I couldnt install Flash, which was pretty hard
- schmudde 1y agoThe web browser app paradigm changed everything. The Windows API isn't nearly as important as it once was.
- rhabarba 1y agoThen again, using Linux has no obvious advantage anymore, as you don't "own" most software you're running anyway.
- mixmastamyk 1y agoBeing able to trust your OS is an incredible advantage.
- hollerith 1y agoToo bad then that desktop Linux is so easy to pwn.
- mixmastamyk 1y agoObtuse gotcha. Trust and security are two different things. And Linux is as secure as anything else against physical attack. edit: local, not remote attack
- hollerith 1y agoWhen you write, "physical attack", what do you mean? Laptop theft?
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- palata 1y agoI think that there are multiple things at play: 1. The statistics only show Desktop usage relative to each other. But I could totally imagine that macOS "loses" users to iPadOS. Similarly, Windows could be losing users to smartphones in general (I see more and more people who don't actually have a personal computer anymore). 2. Valve (and others, surely) is doing an incredible job with video games on Linux. 20 years ago, I needed a dual boot just to play games. I dropped Windows when I stopped playing, and I started playing again thanks to the Steam Deck. I am convinced that many people today "need" an OS on which they can play video games, except that today they have a choice (thanks to Valve and others). 3. Privacy. I think it's becoming a lot more important outside the US (it's actually now a national security concern there), but I'm convinced that people are slowly learning about that. TooBigTech pushing to train their AIs with everything the users do surely has an impact on that.
- kattagarian 1y ago> Similarly, Windows could be losing users to smartphones in general But this is desktop only. If someone stop using windows completely, it won't show a decrease in windows usage. This will basically only show when people switch from desktop OS.
- smcameron 1y agoYou sure about that math? If there are 2 linux users and 8 windows users, then that's 20% linux, 80% windows. If one windows user quits using computers, then that's 2 linux users (out of 9 total) and 7 windows users (out of 9 total), or 22% linux and 77% windows users.
- oceanhaiyang 1y agoThanks to Linux I’m still rocking a surface pro 3. Will never look back
- Shorel 1y agoThis is huge =) I remember the days when we were under 1%. Congratulations to all involved on making this true.
- rhabarba 1y agoI genuinely wonder why it is considered "huge". Does it really matter how many % desktop usage one of the several dozens desktop operating systems has?
- totisjosema 1y agoI really liked the recent picture of Linus Torvalds and Bill gets, hard to believe that after all these years of “competition,” they had never actually met before. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lh34ox/linus_torvalds_bill_gates/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lh34ox/linus_torval...
- echelon 1y agoThis is really cool. I had no idea this had happened. Thirty years ago Bill was writing angry memos about the rise of Linux and how Microsoft had to stop free software.
- exiguus 1y agoMy perspective is that the Steam Deck significantly contributes to this increase. Additionally, a smaller factor could be the growing trend of Dev and Op professionals moving from Macs to Linux. And the trend before, to move from Windows to Mac's because they are cheaper to administrate. This shift is supported by manufacturers like Dell and Lenovo, who are providing more devices with Linux pre-installed, aligning well with the supply chain requirements of IT departments. Also, at least for me, it's hard to envision vendors specialising in Linux desktop hardware, such as Tuxedo, Framework, and System76, experiencing a surge in their market shares. I am very curious to see their numbers and the kind of people and companies that buy this products.
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- ljf 1y agoThis account is most likely a bot by the way..
- goob_nl 1y agoYay PewDiePie
- rhabarba 1y agoRole models for computer use in my generation: RMS, Bjarne Stroustrup, Doug McIlroy. Role models for computer use today: “PewDiePie”. This is why we can't have nice things.
- tock 1y agoPewDiePie is awesome. His linux video has over 6M views. We need to make linux cool again for the general audience.
- rhabarba 1y agoI don't know whether operating systems need to be "cool". Is Windows, the market leader, "cool"? Or rather, I don't know whether those who think PewDiePie is "cool" have the same understanding of "cool" as computer nerds do.
- AuthAuth 1y agoBecause computers are cool. Its easier to point to a general operating system than to all the cool software that runs on them. When people say Linux is cool its not because of just the kernel, its everything from the culture to the software stack and ethos
- osigurdson 1y agoAfter installing Arch / Gnome on my laptop last week, I can see why. Everything works completely fine and feels 3X faster than Windows 11. I have Linux on my desktop machine but always hesitated for laptops due to past bad experiences with power management (i.e. something always eventually went wrong when closing the lid). So far, all of that is working perfectly.
- kovac 1y agoWindows 11 is exceptionally slow. I installed it on a ThinkPad Carbon X1, it was quite unusable. Unresponsive after starting up, copilot and O365 trying to run stuff and i had to wait for them to comolete. I was very surprised that they think this is acceptable. I spent about an hour going through processes and installed programs list, and uninstalling many things. At that point it was more tolerable.
- sexy_seedbox 1y agoYou pretty much need Windhawk to fix and remove all of Windows 11's poor design and architecture.
- PhilippGille 1y agoThere are still issues. Just going with your example, see the threads in the Framework forum around lid close issues (almost all from Linux users): https://community.frame.work/search?q=lid%20close https://community.frame.work/search?q=lid%20close Reports about high battery drain, suspend issues and similar exist as well. I'm running Fedora on a Framework laptop, but with the awareness that it can require some tinkering.
- osigurdson 1y agoCurrent battery life is better than it was on Windows. I know Windows is very good from this standpoint but things always degrade over time. That is my expectation with arch as well - good now but let's see how it is 6 months from now. That is always the real test. Regardless, my laptop is too small to run Windows + WSL so will probably stick with just running Linux.
- donatj 1y agoWindows 11 not working on otherwise perfectly good PCs I imagine is at least a small part of it. I've got an 8-core Ryzen system I think from 2016 that's still very powerful and more than good enough for my needs, but Microsoft is insisting I "throw it away and buy a new one", in this economy no less! I also think a number of influencers like PewDiePie moving to Linux has to have moved the needle at least a little as well.
- jwrallie 1y agoFor me it was Windows 11 not supporting hardware. I moved to Fedora in the beginning of this year for work (while using it at home for quite a while). After seeing SharePoint.exe using 1GB and 100% of the CPU today for over 12 hours I’m seriously considering removing my VM (that I only boot for MS Office). Edge even greeted me with a message that I have access to Copilot Vision that can now see everything I browse when I right clicked the process and clicked on search!
- Nemo_bis 1y agoIt's conceivably part of the reason. Earlier reporting on Windows MAU noted "400 million Windows PCs vanished in 3 years" (https://www.zdnet.com/article/400-million-windows-pcs-vanished-in-3-years-where-did-they-all-go/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/400-million-windows-pcs-vanish... ). As Windows 11 wrecks havoc on older PCs, many may just sit unused or get discarded, thereby increasing the relative share of the surviving PCs (including Linux PCs).
- jasoneckert 1y agoThis begs the question: At what threshold would we consider it 'the year of Linux on the desktop'? 5% seems too low. Would it be 30%? Or 51%? Answering that question in the public sphere may quell many of the "Is ___ going to the year of the Linux desktop?" posts we get each year.
- fh973 1y agoI think the year of Linux on the desktop will actually be the year of Chromium on Linux on the desktop (instead of Chrome on Windows), ie. is it really the Linux on the desktop if the only application you run is the browser for SaaS anyway?
- bikamonki 1y agoBeen there since 0.5% :)
- 5350-uiop-1130 1y ago> install linux > 1 week later PC stops booting
- gergely 1y agoFinally! It is the year of the Linux Desktop! :D
- Zigurd 1y agoThe posts on this thread arguing that Android is not a real Linux should take a look at the increasingly blurred lines between MacOS and iPadOS. Android tablets are on a similar trajectory. ChromeOS Flex pretty much is a desktop Linux distro with an Android runtime. Some people will find the idea of elements of a mobile OS on their desktop attractive. Other people will find it less unattractive than buying a new PC to run Windows 11.
- oblio 1y agoI've been using Android tablets for a long time. They're way behind iPads in terms of apps available for them, and for them to be usable as main computers for anyone half technical they'd basically needs access to all the Linux desktop software, which they don't have access to. The simple example would be LibreOffice.
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- DevKoala 1y agoI am doing my part. I wanted a gaming PC forever but I just couldn’t stomach Windows. I had a great experience with the Steam Deck in the past 2 years so I built a Bazzite desktop. I am having a lot of fun.
- mark-r 1y agoA year ago I decided to upgrade my 10 year old motherboard and get something faster. I was hoping my existing Windows 7 SSD would boot up, but alas it would get to the coalescing window display and crash. I never figured out why. My choices were to spend $200 on a new version of Windows that was worse than the one I lost, or switch to Linux. Guess which I did?
- kristianpaul 1y agoWasnt this what Mac looked 15y ago?
- wolfi1 1y agoAnd it could get into double digits, now Win 10 is phased out. Let's face it, if you are just a regular user of a Personal Computer, you don't need Windows anymore
- k_bx 1y agoI remember when it was absolutely crucial for your desktop/laptop to be able to do everything and Linux was a no go for people. Today you can live off your phone and be OK, so Linux actually makes much more sense. Camera/audio doesn't work well? No worries, just call via phone.
- globalise83 1y agoAlso, 99% of all day to day apps now run in the browser, so having MS Word on your machine is not so important.
- k_bx 1y agoYeah, the only thing I'd love to see is "open with gdocs" to be somehow integrated similar to desktop experience. Having to drag and drop every time, creating new file, is really stupid.
- sschueller 1y agoI hope we get to a point where enough "professionals" are using it to force companies like Acrobat to offer Linux versions of their software (cough Fusion 360). It is the only thing keeping me from completely ditching my windows VM. Using CAD in a virtulabox VM is torture. FreeCAD is sadly not a viable replacement (maybe in the future but a lot of work is needed). I was able to switch to other tools for other things like KiCAD for PCB work, Blender and DaVinci Resolve also work great.
- qwerpy 1y agoOh hey another "I'd fully be on Linux if it wasn't for Fusion 360" person. Although in my case I'm too lazy to maintain VMs, so I just use windows as my base OS. Microsoft may force the issue next year when my perfectly good desktop stops getting Windows 10 updates and can't install Windows 11. What's torturous about using Fusion 360 in a VM?
- sschueller 1y agoI have no GFX performance with virtualbox. Sometimes I run Fusion via another system and remote connected using NoMachine which works better even with the USB spacemouse connected via NoMachine...
- globalise83 1y agoMy suspicion is that many folks are converting their old MacBooks etc which no longer have support to keep running Linux. I have about 4 such machines of different brands lying about the house, some over 10 years old and they run just fine despite their antiquated hardware.
- arrty88 1y agoAre people just running headless / full chrome on *nix from data centers to scrape webpages for AI and data mining? Did the article mention anything about checking IP address?
- renegat0x0 1y agoI do self hosting at home. Some of my friends are too. I own several SBCs. I wonder if the number of computers per tech makes a difference.
- throwpoaster 1y ago2025: The Year of the Linux Desktop! [0] 0: https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/my-winter-of-99-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-always-next-year/ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/my-winter-of-99-the-year-of-...
- rhabarba 1y agoStill looking forward to the year of the Plan 9 desktop. I'm helping!
- intellectronica 1y agoVery cool! If you extrapolate the current trend by 2073 Linux will dominate the desktop market.
- oblio 1y agoAnd the desktop market will have 4 users in total.
- danso 1y agoFor another anecdata point, https://analytics.usa.gov https://analytics.usa.gov tracks user device demographics to all visitors of U.S. government websites. Which of course might skew in ways different than the general U.S. population. But checking out the numbers right now for Linux users: Last 30 days: 6% 2025 so far: 5.7% 2024: 4.5% edit: analytics.usa.gov includes iOS and Android in its operating systems breakdown — e.g. Windows has a 32% share vs OP's 63%. Assuming most of Linux users are on desktop, it could be the case that Linux share in desktop users is a bit higher than 6%
- api 1y agoI’ve said for over a decade that Linux can win a huge chunk of the desktop if it just stays as good as it is and waits. Meanwhile Microsoft keeps making Windows suck more. Apple could do the same to some extent if they cut their prices some.
- JadoJodo 1y agoI am in this category, but I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the state of the market for OS's: I've used macOS for work for many years and Arch-based derivatives for personal desktop. The challenge with that has always been gaming: Gaming on Linux _mostly_ works, but third-party launchers (e.g., Battle.net, Origin, etc.) HATE it. I also don't love the Proton shuffle (i.e., "Which version of Proton do I need to use to get this to work?"), but it's tolerable for me. I'll tell you for whom it _isn't_ tolerable: my wife (who mostly uses a different system running Windows 10, but sometimes wants to use the more powerful gaming PC running Linux). And thus the only remaining choice for the home system has been Linux + Windows (in some capacity). Now, I've not used Windows full-time since 7, but I recently installed Windows 11 (via QEMU using LookingGlass) and it is simply TERRIBLE. There are full-blown ads in the Start Menu, the built-in search ignores your default browser/search engine settings, and (critically) __you can no longer put the Start Menu bar at the top of the screen__ (It's less common, but I've done this my entire life). I think it comes down to the following wishes: A. I wish Windows 8/10/11 didn't suck so much. B. I wish Linux was widely-supported by ALL game platforms. C. I wish macOS gaming wasn't so expensive.
- ActorNightly 1y agoWindows 11 only sucks if you get the Home version. If you get the Pro version you can disable all the annoyances. New things pop up here and there with each update every few years (recently asking to connect my phone so I can see notifications), but those can be disabled easily. It does suck resources so using it on Laptops is not ideal, but for desktop its by far the best, mostly because of WSL2 integration, which is mature enough to not only run graphical linux apps, but also supports CUDA. For Laptops, honestly, Linux Mint with I3wm is the way to go. Once you get used to I3, its hard to go back standard display managers with icons and menus.
- p_j_w 1y ago>New things pop up here and there with each update every few years In my experience this is every few weeks.
- giantg2 1y agoThat's enough that we could form a 3rd political party.
- School-Cotton 1y agoThat political party would fracture into 30 competing ones before the next election.
- schnable 1y agoIs this the year of Linux on the desktop?
- AstroBen 1y agoI wonder how much of this is driven by Linux gaming performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560913 I've used all three OS's for many years and I really just.. don't care which one I'm on anymore. They all do the same thing. Currently on windows 11 after ~5 years of debian gnome and its fine. Enjoyable even, especially with WSL. GUI software support is much better here
- beebmam 1y agoI have a great computer, but it isn't compatible with Windows 11, so now I'm using Ubuntu on it. It's not ideal, but at least it's not a brick. I hate the requirements for Windows 11.
- ivanjermakov 1y agoMicrosoft is the biggest contributor to the Linux desktop market share.
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoI had a Teams meeting for an outside of work topic this morning. Since all my personal machines are Linux based I was kinda happy I had my work laptop available with Windows and Teams installed. Booting it up about half an hour before the meeting... Installing updates... After rebooting twice and only five minutes before the meeting started I reverted to my Linux desktop, opened the email with the link to the Teams meeting and was a minute early using the web version of Teams. Phew, saved by Linux. Kudos to Microsoft for making Teams web version operating system and browser agnostic. But fuck what they've done with Windows updates. Numerous coworkers also saying their computers decided to reboot of their own volition the last couple of days in order to install updates. Maybe it's a worthwhile trade off for security, but I'm glad I had an alternative option this morning. I'm the five-odd years since switching to Linux exclusive at home, my decision is only ever reconfirmed as correct. (I'm a reformed gamer from a long while ago, but the very few games I do play I have gotten to work on Linux).
- oblio 1y agoDo you use your Windows laptop daily?
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoNormally, yes. Due to current circumstances I hadn't used it the day before (Tuesday) although I did use it Monday.
- queuebert 1y agoThis is a very common workflow for me, except I was using Teams on a Mac. And thanks to some update there are now two non-working versions of Teams installed ("Teams" and "Teams new" or some equally tacky naming). Luckily I have a Linux laptop next to it that can run it in-browser. I would love to know what Microsoft thinks the purpose of the standalone app is, when it is both slower and less reliable.
- meepmorp 1y agoThe "great" part about the Office desktop apps is that they're written in electron, so it's already essentially a web app but somehow worse.
- deadbabe 1y agoThere’s no reliable way to collect this data. Linux “desktops” could just be bots.
- gethly 1y agoWindows 11 and Steam OS are starting to make impact. I am sticking to Windows 10 until is stops working but I think Linux might be finally in my future.
- ensocode 1y agoRegarding Steam: Some people used to avoid Linux because of gaming, but that’s changed quite a bit. With Proton and native support for many titles, the barrier to switching is much lower now. Great news anyway :)
- pipeline_peak 1y ago> The Steam Deck has been a game-changer Then is this really an increase in Linux "desktop" market share? I'm aware that it's Arch based and can surely run as a desktop but I see it's contribution no different than if they included ChromeOS or Android with the 5% of Linux. A targeted platform more intended for the purpose of gaming. Desktop Linux's biggest obstacles have always been hardware/software compatibility, and user friendliness for average users. If they're going to list "Windows Woes", then how much of this increase is actually happening on the REAL forefront of Desktop Linux: Ubuntu, Mint and so forth?
- strangescript 1y agoI feel like this is more about Linux remaining reliable and the other platforms getting worse, rather than Linux getting substantially better. I no longer have a windows machine. If I can't get a game to run on Linux then I don't bother with it. I played Clair Obscur start, to finish, in Mint on a 3090 with zero issues. I just forced it to load in steam since linux isn't officially supported.
- BLKNSLVR 1y ago> Linux remaining reliable and the other platforms getting worse, rather than Linux getting substantially better. But that's a very key point of advantage in by-design open-ness and non-commercialisation. It's taken 30(-odd?) years and the coining of the word enshittification, but the advantages of this ideology is now having the last of the clay and sand brushed off it, baring its beauty to a growing audience. And Linux has, in fact, gotten steadily better over that time too, but it's been a slow consistent grind, so it doesn't appear as grand as a sudden red-curtain-unveiling-worthy improvement, but it is, in fact, that grand. (What Valve / Steam / Proton has done may be the closest to a rapid increase of usability / marketability, but even that has been relatively subtly under the radar unless you're paying attention).
- QuadrupleA 1y agoRecently moved to Arch Linux after 25+ years on Windows. It was a LOT of work (my whole career is on the computer and I have a lot of custom scripts and tools), but I'm so happy with the result. No more hundreds of background processes sapping my battery life and performance. No more blatantly manipulative ads every time Windows updates, about how I won't be "safe" unless I sign up for OneDrive, switch to Edge, and subscribe to Office Live Dynamics Pro Limited 365, because now word processing and spreadsheets are a subscription for some fucking reason. No more 3 different generations of UI styles sloppily bolted together (though Linux desktop styling can be plenty sloppy). No more news feeds in my start menu and task bar filled with the outrage and statistically improbable evil human acts of the day, no doubt with MS ads, alongside prods to install Candy Crush and other crap. No more whack-a-mole MS telemetry I have to read obscure guides to find out how to turn off. No more needing to sign in to a FUCKING CLOUD ACCOUNT to use my own computer. No more stupid crap like copilot, sucking screenshots and forwarding them to MS and OpenAI, and other sparkly AI icons on every damn thing. Haven't booted Windows in a month or two. So happy to have switched - my computer belongs to me again, for the first time in a long while
- wrasee 1y agoSo refreshing isn’t it? It’s like having an OS that’s actually designed for you, not them. Imagine! Occasionally I will boot into a Windows partition because I have to do something windows-only. I’m so out of the Windows world these days that I mentally have to prepare myself not to get too fired up with it all, just calm down do the thing and get out. :) Agree that it’s a lot of effort to switch though, so good for you on making the switch!
- soiltype 1y ago2 years ago i replaced my last win10 installation with linux mint and i literally never think about going back. i am a pretty technical person and i still run into issues sometimes that take a few sessions to resolve though. i wish it was an easier sell to my friends. i began to feel extremely creeped out by my computer running windows which was was ultimately motivated me, but i not only avoided the evils of microsoft, i feel much more in-control and capable of doing more on linux. it's crazy to me when my friends will say shit about configuration and i'm like, what's the tradeoff? configuring windows to just work like a normal computer is MUCH more work. the only way to put in no work is to be farmed for data and treated like a child by your own computer.
- queuebert 1y agoAnecdotally, I have two gaming desktops for my kids in the same place, side by side. They don't know much about computers, but they greatly prefer to use the Linux one and only use the Windows one when forced to, like because Microsoft bought Minecraft and only puts out Education Edition for Windows. They seem to navigate Ubuntu much easier than Windows, and that machine gives them less trouble and is snappier.
- apples_oranges 1y agoPerhaps people don't want copilot and other enhancements but just an OS. Also Windows forcing certain CPUs for Win 11 could play a role.
- ModernMech 1y agoI will say though, I teach in Computer Science at university, and every semester in a class of 100, there's only ever at max just 1 student who has a Linux distro of any flavor on their laptop. Usually it's 0. It's pretty sad if you ask me.
- gootz 1y agoVery cool. My take on the growth...Chat bots make it very easy to find commands and troubleshoot issues.
- snarfy 1y agoSomeone pinch me when VisualStudio runs under Wine/Proton with at least a silver rating. It is quite literally the only app keeping me on Windows.
- voidUpdate 1y agoOut of interest, what do you need visual studio for that you cant get on linux?
- snarfy 1y agoOf course, there are always alternatives, but as a professional software engineer there are times I need to use genuine Visual Studio for one reason or another. Why use Photoshop when Gimp is available? Fusion360 when there is FreeCAD? etc.
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- erikerikson 1y agoVsCode works fine on Linux
- School-Cotton 1y agoVS Code and Visual Studio have about as much in common as JavaScript and Java.
- erikerikson 1y agoI have to admit it's been a bit but when I first made the transition after a couple years using JetBrains, everything I actually used in Visual Studio was in VsCode. I should also admit that a big part of Microsoft strategy from as far back as 2003 was to make things "easy" in a non-translatable way which kept people locked into Visual Studio. Having traversed this divide, I see it now as something akin to different languages for the same concepts. Not unlike learning further programming languages after your first.
- warmwaffles 1y agoThere are dozens of us. Dozens I say!
- buyucu 1y agoI don't get the anti-Linux hate that some people have. I get apathy, it's normal not to care. But I don't understand why anyone would actively root against a free and open alternative. This is great news btw, and consistent with what is coming out of the Steam survey.
- 7e 1y agoThese stats are bogus: OS X market share drops by 50% in a few months, macOS market share at zero for most of last twelve months. Windows market share goes up 8% in a few months? Total garbage.
- webprofusion 1y agoHow much of this is AI tools pretending to be users? If they use a real browser instead of identifying as a crawler then it's going to skew the stats.
- sergiotapia 1y agoMicrosoft is killing it's platform. One egregious example is their efficiency mode that literally cripples your computer in the name of some misguided "green initiatives". I primarily went back to Linux Mint because of this problem. Thankfully Steam allows me to game my library just like on Windows. I have no reason to return.
- sirjaz 1y agoHave people looked at the numbers? Chromeos and Linux have swapped, and if you include the unknown OS which are most likely Windows behind a corporate proxy it is back up to 70% of the market. In addition, the number of sites statcounter pulls from us dropped in half in the last three years if that matters.
- itsalotoffun 1y agoAnd at this rate, 6% by 2035, come onnnnn!
- IndrekR 1y agoI would not be too surprised to find out that significant portion of Linux on Desktop here is actually headless Chrome web scraping.
- dankobgd 1y agothis is the year of Linux
- Pxtl 1y agoPersonally I'm taking another kick at Linux desktop in advance of Win11, I installed Mint with Cinnamon... and I gotta say, I'm kinda disappointed how many pain points there still are. Type in your admin password every 5 seconds just to install routine updates, ugly-ass GRUB screens, confusing UI, and SDL2 games being half-broken with resolution-switching and audio. Installing software still involves bouncing around figuring out if I want the Flatpak or to add a new Apt source or what. So I'm assuming these "5% desktop market share" aren't using that kind of distro.
- akho 1y agoYou installed a distro that aims to preserve suckage for future generations, and even developed an entire DE out of pure aversion to change. It’s often recommended by change-averse Linux users… Successful Linux-based OSes have unattended atomic updates and user-friendly app installation. That includes ChromeOs and Android, as well as modern atomic desktop distributions. Fedora Silverblue, Bluefin, Bazzite. edit: however, market share is probably coming from legacy distributions. That’s largely a sign of how bad Windows gets, and how desktops/laptops become more niche.
- Pxtl 1y agoAh, I had no idea Mint Cinnamon was about "preserving suckage". I remember when Mint launched it was all about "Ubuntu but easier, like non-free stuff included" and my understanding was Cinnamon was their own DE built to follow familiar UI patterns and customizability instead of Gnome's opinionated stuff. Didn't realize that it was also for grumps who wanted bug-compatibility in their workflow.
- akho 1y agoMint, afaik, offers a choice between Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. These are all DEs built and maintained to preserve a particular workflow based around hierarchical “start” menus, menu bars in applications, and desktop icons — the Win’95 style. This particular selection is very indicative of a preference for a particular era. Which is fine if that’s your preference, too. However, you shouldn’t expect your experience to be significantly different from what it was when that desktop experience was fresh when you choose a product made by people with such strong preferences. Again, Bluefin and the like update (atomically, with a rollback option) when you turn your computer off, with no interruptions or sudoing; app installs are through Gnome Software (for GUI stuff; through brew otherwise), without a need to enter passwords. You pay for that with some customizability, but it’s rock solid if it works on your hardware.
- billy99k 1y agoWSL+windows replaced the Linux desktop for me.
- lunaticman 1y agoMy step dad doesn't know how to share links over messenger (constantly sends me screenshots of pages), but he runs Thinkpad Manjaro for last 3 years without issues. At first, I was afraid that I will have to do some sort of support regularly or answer questions, but besides "Which music player should I install?" it was crickets for the last 3 years.
- Havoc 1y agoPretty sure most of the recent gains are coming from gamers It’s becoming a more viable option - assuming you don’t need multiplayer with anticheat
- kwar13 1y agoI installed Ubuntu on my laptop 5 years ago and haven't looked back. Windows at this point just feels like crappy spyware. Not a single thing I miss about Windows. Also gaming on Linux works great for the most part with Proton. Thanks Steam!
- fuck_AI 1y agoMicrosoft <3 Linux so much, they ruined Windows so people would switch to Linux. Thank you Microsoft! Seriously though, I switched to Linux late last year and haven't looked back. It has everything I need for a computer and a lot of the "problems" people say is holding them back from switching full-time are greatly exaggerated. Like if you're not willing to make some small compromises so you can have a computer that respects you as a human and not a metric then I don't know what to tell you.
- bigbuppo 1y agoThis has been my take. They even made Windows 11 look like a linux desktop so they can do a switcheroo later on. Microsoft could kill off Windows as a desktop operating system and it wouldn't dent their financials in a major way. You'll know they're truly serious, though, when they start making contributions to Wine and also makes bash the default command line interpreter in windows.
- jksmith 1y agoComment generator: "Concerns about privacy invasions, adware, and forced updates in Windows are pushing users away. Many users are fed up with Microsoft "urging users to train their AI for free"." 1) Windows chatting behind your back causes distrust. And for good reason. 2) Yes, forced updates, but the consumers don't understand that they're just crofters in MSFT's world with all MSFT's products. MSFT will update as much as fits their needs to protect their property, not yours. 3) Re: adware. Part of your relationship with MSFT is that you are the commodity. It's a general internet business revenue model.
- tristor 1y agoMakes sense, I now do the majority of my personal workflows, except for photography, on Arch Linux on a Framework 13 laptop. I still have a M1 MBP for personal use that I primarily use for photography and not much else. There's a very minimal set of "normal" use cases that cannot be served on Linux at this point, and Linux desktops are more stable in the ways that matter to users now than the alternatives.
- roody15 1y agoIt’s surprising to me it’s not higher. Gaming is excellent on Linux and Windows 11 is simply not good. Just a relative easier distro like Ubuntu is outstanding and learning curve is lower than ever.
- hoherd 1y agoI think it's going to keep increasing. I know people who resisted linux for decades and after playing with a Steam Deck are now considering building a linux gaming PC. This is in large part because they are investing into the Steam ecosystem for the first time ever and seeing how great it is. Mad props to Valve for all their work on Proton and Steam.
- chrsw 1y agoImpressive because nobody has ever successfully made a Linux desktop computer targeted at consumers the way Apple has. I wouldn't count Chromebooks or Android devices. I mean a system you would use as a workstation or a power user's computer. And I don't mean a Windows PC that you have the option of pre-installing Linux on like from Dell or HP. I mean a computer designed and built around Linux.
- hluska 1y agoThis is anecdata, but with my own very limited (by choice) website analytics, I see a strong correlation between Linux users and headless browsers. So while my Linux user base seems higher than ever before so is my headless traffic. When I remove headless traffic, my Linux user base is in that 2-3.x% region.
- AgentElement 1y agoThis is not surprising, and further growth is inevitable. I am heavily involved in a local Linux users group, and the number of people switching away from Windows increases every year. Anecdotal, of course, but Microsoft's enshittification of Windows makes the argument in favor of a free OS easier every year too.
- KETpXDDzR 1y agoThanks Microsoft for making Windows so crappy that ppl switch to Linux!
- mistyvales 1y agoFinally switched full time to Fedora KDE back in 2018 and only use Windows in QEMU KVM's. Of course my work laptop is Apple. I am no power user by any means, but everything I do is supported: minor web dev, Davinci, Blender, Steam, even Battle.net running on Bottles (Diablo II: Resurrected has never crash once and runs at an excellent frame rate), basic browsing, etc. I get random issues here and there, but I also did on Windows and still do on Mac OS. No regerts.
- milosz 1y agoinstalled Omakub by @dhh (let say "opinionated setup" based on Ubuntu) few days ago, look how cool it looks: https://x.com/szolim/status/1943798085806702988/photo/1 https://x.com/szolim/status/1943798085806702988/photo/1 also there is a sister project for Arch: https://omarchy.org/ https://omarchy.org/
- mdnahas 1y agoAnecdote: I’ve run Linux and MacOS. I switched to Linux when Apple hardware got stupid expensive (soldered memory and harddrive) and Dell offered laptops with Linux installed. My brother was always saying “Apple just works … less hassle”. But he’s now worried about expense and privacy and moving to Linux. I feel like the geeky bleeding edge is leaving Apple for Linux.
- throwaway342110 1y agoWhat year is it?
- Nevermark 1y agoIf you resize the plot to be very skinny, it becomes very visually apparent that the growth in Linux is extreme, given the time period is only one year.