References
- “Linux hits another all-time high for July 2024 according to Statcounter”. Liam Dawe. GamingOnLinux. Published: 2024-08-01T11:35Z. Accessed: 2024-08-04T19:21Z. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/linux-hits-another-all-time-high-for-july-2024-according-to-statcounter/.
This is a big deal. More Linux users leads to more Linux-supporting software, which leads to more users.
The biggest resistence is front-loaded into that first few percent.
In my opinion, advancements in binary compatibility accross distributions (Flatpak, AppImage, …) and broad compatibility with Windows software (Wine and forks… thank you Valve!) are making Linux easier to use.
At the same time, I feel like nowadays there’s less forums or places people can ask help with, although today ChatGPT can be a good help with newbie questions.
I feel like nowadays there’s less forums or places people can ask help with
I’m sorry, what??
There are more places than ever to find support. The Ubuntu forums, EndeavourOS forums, Manjaro forums, NixOS forums, SUSE forums, etc. Just about every larger distro has it’s own forum and they’re all very active. Then there are general Linux, Linux “newbie”, Linux help communities on the various Lemmy servers and (whether you like it or not) on Reddit also. Then there’s Mastodon. General tech forums like Level1Tech, Hacker News, etc.
The Arch wiki is also great.
… Even if you don’t use Arch Linux.
I dont know about that. There is Lemmy and a ton of Distros or respins I know have forums.
Some have chatrooms which totally suck for finding information.
This is a big deal. More Linux users leads to more Linux-supporting software, which leads to more users.
It should correlate with more donations , the donations linux mint are getting are also growing fairly consistently. the same is true for the “Open Source Collective” which is a fiscal host for open source projects.
10% growth in 1 month is huge. If that keeps up then everyone will be on Linux soon.
Get this man in front of some shareholders
So here’s the plan:
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Grow market share
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Grow profit
I take it step 3 is ??
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Do you mean that as a relative 10%? Because this chart maxes out at 5%.
Yeah, relative. From ~4% to ~4.4%.
Idk why am enjoying linux more then windows
It feels really good to be a part of this wave!
Thanks Steam and Microsoft!
Yeah there’s no way I trust their methodology has stayed that stable over 15 years. Hell if you just look in the last year supposedly 3% of global users jumped from Mac to Windows in a single month (Nov 2023).
There are also loads of new Linux device classes that may have Linux in their user agent but aren’t really “the year of the Linux desktop” that you’re thinking of. It seems they try to count ChromeOS (though badly - seems like “Unknown” contains a lot of ChromeOS depending on the month), and obviously Android, but what about Steam Deck? Smart devices with web browsers built in? Is your Tesla desktop Linux?
I’d buy it’s gone up; not to 4% though. I would be moderately surprised if 4% of web users had even heard of Linux.
The year of the Linux desktop I’m thinking of was like 2008. That was then it became perfectly usable on the desktop and I haven’t had to switch back since.
I don’t understand why anyone care’s what Linux’s “market share” is. It’s open source, no one makes money when someone installs Linux.
it’s still a market, and “free” is still a price point
I would be moderately surprised if 4% of web users had even heard of Linux.
Patently absurd
Same, I’d like to see this compared to other sources. Steam also tends to swing wildly based on the Chinese market
Yeah there’s no way I trust their methodology has stayed that stable over 15 years.
There’s likely some decently sized error bars. I’m not sure how accurate Statcounter is. It would be nice to see data independently acquired by another service to increase the confidence level. If Statcounter is only checking the useragent, then the accuracy of the data is certainly lacking, but the trend is worthy of note, or, at least, further investigation.
You could almost be forgiven for not realising that every point on that Y axis is a mere half percent…
All the usual caveats apply. Linux still comes behind “unknown” in Statcounter, whose methodology is… dubious, and the Steam survey has Linux at 2%, flat from the previous checkpoint.
It makes sense that Steam is lower, since gaming historically has been one of the biggest things keeping people from switching. That’s no longer the case, but it’ll take time to convert people.
Also, putting half percent points from 0 to 5 on the y axis, while the x axis is four month intervals since 2009, makes this growth look way more significant that it really is…
The shape of the curve, ie the trend, imo, is far more important than the current marketshare.
To the moon, boys!
💎👐
the only chart I care about
For liberty!
For freedom ☠️
Stonks!
In 2 months, it has increased by over 0.5%
If the growth continues, it will reach 100% in 30 years!
My god, does that mean we’ll be at 200% in 60 years?😱
In 120 years, people will each have 4 linux computers
It has always been
Great for portable gaming machines ✅️
Resurrect old Pc/laptops ✅️
Great for Servers ✅️
Gratis and open sources✅️
Feed multiple derivated systems with his codes (for free) ✅️
Is not Windows ✅️✅️✅️
If I wasn’t already sold, I’d be sold.
The only line which I demand must only go up.
300% percent Linux market share by 2070!
Yes
It’s starting to look like a hockey stick, isn’t it.
Someone should add major Windows releases on the X axis. There’s gotta be some correlation.
I had dabbled in it off and on since LONG LONG ago, but I only went full time (no dual boot) since windows 11 release. So yeah, I bet there’s lots others like me.
I had been dual booting for a while with Windows 11/Fedora until one day I needed to update the BIOS on my motherboard. Windows decided it was too big of an upgrade and wanted me to activate again. I called support, and they said that I had used up all my activations and would need to buy a new copy.
Thanks Microsoft, for helping me switch full time to Linux!
They force you to re-buy the same software for literally the same hardware. That’s insane.
For more context, it was a Windows 8.1 license I upgraded to 11. But yes, still crazy they let it “expire” when using the exact same hardware. My theory is that because the BIOS update changed my TPM keys, Windows couldn’t tell that it was the same hardware.
wait that’s a thing? I guess I’d never find out because I always used whatever activation method was available on MDL for each version for the odd time I used windows.
Actually windows market share is growing as well. It’s MacOS that’s dropping
That spike in 2021 looks to be around the win11 release date, although it pretty much dropped the same amount after. Does look to be a sharper trend in adoption since then, though (with all of the caveats about what the data is measuring of course).
Thanks! It does indeed look like people try out Linux before the new Windows release. Then it returns to the slower adoption trend.
It’s also interesting because you can also see a steeper line corresponding on the “worse” windows versions (8, 11) while it’s relatively stagnant during windows 10
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