Average people are also more likely to ditch their PCs than Linux users.
See the recent meme: Image
People ditching their PC because they don’t need it anymore doesn’t explain that the relative share of Mac and Linux has increased for the past 15 years though. Unless for some reason Windows users are more likely to ditch their PC because they don’t need it than Mac or Linux users.
Damage@feddit.it 1 week ago
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I just installed Mint and some games on 5 Thinkpad T420s my boss was going to throw out. Sunday’s LAN party was pretty fun.
Is this my future?
Damage@feddit.it 1 week ago
If you’re lucky
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 week ago
gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901…
Both Linux and MacOS look fairly flat overall, with a few spikes for Mac. What did happen was iOS and especially Android went to the moon.
Most people had a PC for a bit of light office work, emails and storing pictures. All of that can be done on a phone and more besides. It’s not great that a handful of Silicon Valley techbros are holding everyone’s data to ransom, but that’s what the masses are doing.
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I could quite literally just get by on my phone these days. I only use the laptop for the larger screen and something to hold an extremely large capacity SD card, as for whatever reason samsung flip phones don’t have that anymore.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 week ago
MAC sales peaked 10-11 years ago.
bent@feddit.dk 1 week ago
I think thats exactly it. A lot of the people begrudgingly have a PC. I bet most of those just use whatever the PC came with. Linux and Mac users are more likely to enjoy using a PC.
TheodorAlforno@feddit.org 1 week ago
Linux users NEED their computer. You don’t put up with getting into Linux for fun except of you are a very special breed of geek.