Open Menu
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
lotide
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
Login

Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

⁨0⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/

source

Comments

Sort:hotnewtop
  • mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you Pewdiepie!!

    source
    • cass80@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m out of the loop. What did he do?

      source
      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        be a racist piece of shit with the emotional maturity of a 12 year old with fetal alcohol syndrome?

        source
        • -> View More Comments
      • mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0&t=7s

        He made a video encouraging people to try Linux.

        source
      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Recommended Linux.

        source
    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is he really the reason? I just started trying a bunch over the past month through vm’s to see which one I like the best because I want to take the leap soon. I am doing it mostly due to the video game performance and compatibility reaching high enough levels that I don’t think it will be a big issue anymore. I also listed out all my current Windows apps and looked up what the alternative is, and from what I see, there is nothing left that won’t run on Linux anymore. The next step is seeing how some compare to what I am used to.

      I can’t be the only one who is noticing its current state and just wanting to try something different. I don’t hate windows like everyone talks about it online, but I am at the point where I am noticing they are only going to get worse with privacy and continue to make awful built in features that do more to benefit themselves over you. So the 2 lines have crossed paths, and I think it’s the perfect storm for Linux soon.

      source
      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Keep in mind quite a lot of online games have recently banned linux players, in case there’s an important game for you like that.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
      • 18107@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He has a large audience and used his position to publicise it.

        There have been countless volunteers and enthusiasts who have worked hard to make Linux worth publicising.

        source
    • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He single-handedly changed a lot of people’s impression of Linux with a single video, and he did it gently enough to not intimidate and scare them away like many others did. I respect that.

      source
  • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I started running openSUSE Tumbleweed full time at the beginning of this year!

    I truly must thank the folks at Steam/Proton, GE-Proton, and wemod-launcher on GitHub for allowing me to play my games exactly like I did on Windows. I can’t stress to anyone who isn’t playing on Linux just how good it really is (for me, at least)!

    I have beaten at least 10 games while on Linux. Games like: Metaphor: Refantazio, Persona 3 Reloaded, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Mass Effect Legendary Edition (all three games), Oblivion Remastered, and recently System Shock (Remake). Just to name a few off the top of my head!

    I still have a Windows SSD dedicated to anything I MUST use on there (mainly modding games, logging back into openSUSE, then pulling those files straight from the Windows SSD onto my openSUSE SSD, fucking love that!), but that is mostly being unused because I found the wonders of QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager. I use the VM to sideload apps onto my iPhone, for save editing, or for testing a Windows only app before trying to run it with Bottles or something else.

    Logging into Linux feels like home, while logging onto Windows feels like someone else’s home. :P

    source
    • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I share your enthusiasm. I wanted to learn Linux because so much scientific computing in my field relies on it, but when I dual booted, it was too easy to just retreat to Windows as the path of least resistance. I decided to fully make the switch to Linux as an attempt to force myself to learn stuff, but the big thing that held me back was nervousness about gaming.

      Turns out that this fear was completely unfounded, and I have been utterly astounded at how easy gaming on Linux was. It wasn’t completely pain free, and there were a couple times that I needed to tinker somewhat, but it was no more difficult or frequent than I needed to do similar stuff on Windows.

      I get what you mean about logging on feeling like home. Besides the scientific computing, a big part of what pushed me to Linux was how ambiently icked out I felt by using Windows — it didn’t feel like mine. Running Windows feels like renting a home from a landlord who doesn’t respect your boundaries and just comes in to make changes while you’re sleeping. Like, it’s not even about whether those changes are good or bad, but how weird it feels to constantly be reminded that this home is not truly yours.

      source
      • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What field are you in, if you don’t mind a stranger asking?

        I wish I could have an interesting backstory to why I wanted to switch to Linux, but mine is much more simple! I just saw how well the SteamDeck was running some of the games I was throwing on it, and was pretty impressed! So, I pulled a spare SSD out of one of my old laptops, chucked it into the desktop, and started the install for openSUSE Tumbleweed because I had heard it was “one of the most stable distros” and was sold since I have always messed my Linux installs up! (I was also dual booting on the same laptop I pulled the SSD from, so that could have been a lot of the issues I had)

        Gaming is definitely more simple once you acclimate to the new OS you are using. It was like when I used a Mac for the first time, and didn’t find it very good to use, but now I can get on one and do a lot more things now that I understand the system a little better! If I need to look something up, I just always add openSUSE Tumbleweed, and generally find what I need.

        I used some tools (ChrisTitusTech, and StartAllBack mainly) to make Windows bearable, but never liked not having the control over MY system. It is definitely weird when I am on Windows. I usually check to see if that nasty Recall system somehow installed itself on there, or something similar. Heebie jeebies!

        source
    • Dani551@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Never expected to see a shoutout for my project on here. Thanks, glad it has helped you.

      source
      • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hey, Dani! I don’t have a lot of time to play games like I used to, so you and the others who have worked on wemod-launcher are a LIFE SAVER! I can’t tell you how cool it is to see the developer here, and actually saw my comment.

        Every time I get done playing a game, and WeMod asks the “How was it?” prompt, I also always shout the project out through that, just in case someone sees it and they want to help or make the switch over to Linux. :)

        source
      • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which is your project?

        As an aside, your comment has hit me in a surprisingly profound way. I think it’s because it can be too easy to forget about the people behind the software we use. This is especially the case with proprietary software from big companies, but it can also happen with open source or smaller projects from individual devs. I think that it arises in part from thinking about software as a product, which neglects the messy relationality of how things are actually made, maintained and used.

        It’s sweet to see such a serendipitous exchange of appreciation. It makes the world feel smaller, but in a good way.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do you side load apps onto iPhone?

      source
      • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I use a program called Sideloadly!

        Obviously, just be careful on what you install, as with anything else! :-]

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • dukatos@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks, Gaben.

    source
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Finally, the year of Desktop Linux. Twenty years after we were promised. And it’s still a pittence, but I’ll take it.

    I’m on a Mac, only use Linux for server stuff, but the more people we can get off Windows, the better. Let’s go!

    source
  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I could just go one day on Lemmy without hearing about Linux… nothing has turned me off Linux more than you guys not shutting up about it.

    source
    • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You were never interested in the first place and are just looking for a way to appear above the discourse. Tool.

      source
    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re in Technology@lemmy.world and we’re talking about… technology. Seems fitting.

      source
    • Jinarched@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

      source
    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You might be happier elsewhere.

      source
      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The online equivalent to “go back to your country”

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It has no marketing budget so the only way the userbase can grow is by proselytizing.

      source
    • dajoho@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you migrate to it, I promise we’ll shut up.

      source
      • mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Liar! Lol

        source
    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Feel free to stay on Windows or MacOS or whatever floats your boat. Won’t bother anyone.

      source
      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The downvotes say otherwise. Linux bros are toxic, and can’t handle anyone who isn’t one of them

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I doubt this is the case. Number is likely biased by SteanDecks and AI crawlers/Agents. It would be nice however.

    source
    • Mouette@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      AI crawler and other bots do not advertise as Linux if you want to look like normal traffic you advertise as windows or apple user

      source
    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Steamdecks are still linux, I dont think they should be discounted.

      source
      • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, but not a desktop.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    source
  • Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I will fully switch when installing mods are just as easy as windows. So far I haven’t found mod managers that work only for one or two games. I have switched mostly to pop os using plasma.

    source
    • ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Modding might not be as easy as on Windows, but for example, Mod Organizer 2 works on Linux. Steam Tinker Launch helps with MO2 installation and usage. Wabbajack also works after some tinkering, but you’ll need to search the Internet to figure out how to get it working.

      I have recently played Fallout: New Vegas with Viva New Vegas modlist and Skyrim with Nordic Souls modlist under Linux. Took some tinkering to get the modding things working, and to figure out where each of the files are located, but other than those, the games worked fine.

      Once you go through the pain of getting one modding tool working, you can then use it with other games without the initial hassle.

      source
    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which games? I know there are a few projects trying to improving linux modding.

      source
      • Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oblivion remastered, stardew valley, fallout 4, or rimworld.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • Teknikal@eviltoast.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Should be 105 percent the way Microsoft treats it’s users.

    source
  • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still far too low, considering that the US is now a police state.

    source
    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, even from inside the US it seems more and more iffy to trust our tech giants even as a paying customer. I love reading the stories about groups and governments in Europe adopting Linux/FOSS, but I’m also surprised I don’t see it more.

      Everything in the news is so insane that I could see journalists ignoring/missing such mundane events as public sector software choices.

      source
      • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Here in Germany, at least something is happening. Recently, for example, the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein decided to switch to Linux (and also LibreOffice), with the change planned for this fall.

        Overall, however, far too little is happening in our country. The vast majority of federal states and the national government continue to rely on proprietary software (mainly from US corporations, especially Microsoft).

        At the national level, this is hardly surprising, as our Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is more of a US lobbyist than a politician: Until 2020, he was on the supervisory board of Black Rock Germany and was also a long time chairman of the “Atlantik-Brücke”, a German-American lobby organization for economic relations (so on and so forth). Unfortunately, no change of course is to be expected from him — nor from his party, the conservative CDU, that is the most popular party for some strange reason.

        In Bavaria, which is also deeply conservative, the federal state government is even considering introducing Palantir.

        I don’t understand how all this can happen when it is perfectly obvious how vulnerable all these US products are making us – vulnerable to industrial espionage and worse - especially now that the US is developing into a fascist, unjust state.

        But hey, I think we all have to remain somewhat positive despite all this. As I said, there is some movement in terms of FOSS —probably much more in other European countries than in Germany. So, slowly but steady, we’re moving forward! I really hope that’s how it is in the US as well.

        Best of luck in these harsh times!

        source
  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    REVOLUTION

    source
  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m helping!

    Just put Mint on my 2-in-1! So far so good, except my volume buttons don’t work, and I have to manually toggle the on screen keyboard for text entry if I detactch the keyboard cover.

    source
    • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t use the stock kernel. Use the HWE one if you want newer hardware to work on Ubuntu and its derivatives like Mint.

      Or try a Fedora live-usb and see if it works with the newer kernels.

      source
      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My newer hardware is circa 2015.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Woooo! Year of the linux desktop baby!!

    • pumps fist in air*
    source
  • anachrohack@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only things keeping my on Windows rn is Visual Studio and DirectX 11. Linux doesn't have C++ IDEs or a Graphics API that even comes close to these two

    source
    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Vulkan is absolutely amazing. It also runs LLMs these days almost as well as CUDA.

      source
    • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What

      source
    • doxxx@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d argue that VSCode plus extensions is a decent replacement for Visual Studio and actually superior for many other text editing tasks that are not C++.

      source
  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why are is that stat counter splitting Macs into OS X and macOS

    It’s the same OS.

    source
    • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m a Mac user and everyone in my family is too (I use a Linux desktop for work), but I have a hard time believing MacOS has a 25% market share.

      source
      • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Especially because the lion’s share of computers are corporate/business machines.

        source
    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s worth noting that some data reporting issues mean OS X and macOS are sometimes split, even though macOS is the newer branding for OS X. When combined, Apple’s desktop presence is around 24%

      source
  • Sarothazrom@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just switched last month and I love it so far (:

    source
    • tfm@europe.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🙃

      source
  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    source
  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At some point companies will be forced to accept that they’re losing out on revenue by not releasingg a linux version of their software.

    source
    • Sestren@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the Windows version through Wine will still run better than the native… As is tradition.

      source
    • anachrohack@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Companies don't make native software anymore - most things are websites now

      source
      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Adobe creative suite, most cad software, fames (work with Proton already so little need for this), etc.

        source
  • kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just recently converted myself! It’s soooo much better than it used to be. I used Ubuntu as a daily driver several years ago, but I absolutely had to dual boot windows because getting any games running was a massive pain in the ass. Now I just slap a proton build on it and go on my merry way!

    I’ve only had issues with some software that needs to attach itself to steam games, such as Archipelago, but I’ve been able to figure them all out so far!

    source
  • randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve actually been using Bazzite-gnome-nvidia image on my main desktop for the past few weeks and I have to say it’s very slick.

    My main issue with it is with scaling disabled everything seems slightly big or spaced out in comparison to when I ran windows? I’ve read up and it maybe has something to do with the default fractional scaling but I checked and I’m at 100%.

    Other than that I’m very happy with it!

    source
    • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Last time I used fractional scaling with GNOME it was a mess. Not sure of its state nowadays

      source
  • commander@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty certain the rate of increase will accelerate over years. Even moreso outside of the USA. Good news for getting more attention to other open source software not just the kernel and core OS utils.

    source
  • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OS reveal perty and it’s a penguin.

    source
  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Year of the Linux desktop

    source
  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Linux is freedom. It’s imperfect, fun and yours. It teaches you while helping you do your computing, creative and fun tasks. If you’re even the least but curious I encourage you to try it out.

    source
  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ubuntu 10.10 was my first linux. Though 11.04 was released soon after my switch.

    My first experience with 10.10 was as a virtual machine on my school issued Dell Latitude D505 laptop with Windows XP, a dual core 32-bit processor and 512 megs of RAM. And boy, let me tell you, it ran like shit. But I knew that it was because I was virtualizing it and didn’t hold that against it.

    I can’t remember what it was called, but I eventually installed this OS on my flash drive that was meant to be eco-friendly for old devices. It had a very green wallpaper. And just used that instead of ever booting into windows by changing the boot order and leaving the flash drive plugged in at all times.

    source
  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Proton is a big deal for the change. Think back 5 years ago and switching to Linux was much less approachable because you needed to be an enthusiast to get your games running. Nowadays, you just click download on the Linux Steam client and >90% of the time, it’ll just work.

    source
    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s less Proton, more Vulkan/DXVK. Proton is just wrapping these amazing things. Before DXVK, games in Linux used to suck big time.

      source
  • dastanktal@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow. Thats amazing.

    source
  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Great, but that graph is not showing any prticular spike, just a nice and gentle upward trend in share. The article also overlooks that there is a certain element of Windows and MacOS computers being replaced by tablets and phones, while Linux is already an enthusiast choice on the desktop, meaning it will be insulated somewhat.

    On the plus side, Steam and Proton and maturing DEs/distros and enshittification of Windows certainly make Linux a much more viable “normie” option than it’s ever been. We’re a far cry from the CD-ROM of Red Hat that came with my “Intro to Linux” book in 1999 but couldn’t use my Winmodem or printer and really preferred to run XWindows in grayscale.

    source
  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If it’s anything like browsers that’s about the level were a platform is hard to ignore.

    source
-> View More Comments