Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.
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Glad to be part of the trend! Recently converted my 12 year old MacBook Pro to Fedora and it’s running incredibly well. Have used command line Linux for work for years, but have really been enjoying it with a GUI in a desktop setting.
I don’t really want Linux to become the dominant OS. I want Microsoft to release Windows under a free software license. Windows is actually not that bad an OS from a purely technical standpoint.
Of course this won’t happen. The day they release it, world will collapse because of the newly discovered vulnerabilities and stuff. Security over obscurity is major player in securities of closed source programs.
The revolution is coming!
Partly my fault - I have that page set to auto open on my browser every week
It’s ok, I’ve never been on that site and I changed windows to tumbleweed nearly 2 months ago on my laptop.
Oh yeah
This is the year
If I wasn’t a noob gamer I’d have no use for Windows. Unfortunately I’m too dumb to figure out how to make games work, even on Mint.
In order of easiness:
- Steam (click and play)
- Heroic (click and play)
- Lutris (search the right game entry, then click and play)
- Bottles (gives you access to some game launchers made for Windows)
I suggest to install all of them with Flatpak to avoid messing up your system different with Wine versions, prefixes and whatnot
Wine, lutris and steam are your best friends on linux in terms of gaming
It takes less than you think. It’s not always windows-easy but a little troubleshooting and googling is usually all it takes. The biggest sticking point is anti-cheat, if the kind of games you like require it.
I helped! I installed Linux Mint on 2 of my friends aging laptops.
Thanks, Steam Deck.
If Steam Deck counts does ChromeOS count? How about Android?
ChromeOS is “sort of linux” but sandboxed and uses it’s own user agent string.
Android is the same way- Technically a Linux kernel. But sandboxed to death and uses a separate agent.
Most OS statistics come from web usage which is probably pretty minimal for Steam Decks.
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It’s not so much about browsing on steam decks. It’s about the technical improvements Valve has brought to Linux gaming compatibility that has now made full Linux conversion without a Windows dual-boot for gaming (and many other Windows programs) a true reality. Once people don’t have to reboot every time they want to start a game they’ll stay in Linux full time.
I think SteamOS might help a bit, but the driving factor might be that Microsoft decided to ditch much of good hardware on their upgrade path to Windows 11.
It seems like a nice one-two punch of Microsoft shitting the bed with Windows 11 at the same time Valve is taking big strides towards making Linux a viable option for gaming. I don’t think you would see this if either happened in isolation.
Yeah my current PC is only just starting to hit it’s (gaming) limits now, still plenty strong for literally any other purpose, but yeah no I’ll just build a whole new PC just so I can be forced into an OS I don’t want when they stop supporting the one I’m on. It’s a fucking joke, I hate this ride and I want off of it.
I’m only just starting to get comfortable on Linux, I had a crack many years ago but switched back promptly to windows. Once I’m more comfortable and there’s better gaming support I’ll make the switch, it’s just not quite there yet for me.
I’ve been distro hopping a bit with my orange pi, I’m glad I didn’t dual-boot my desktop as I’m already struggling for storage with these 100+gb games being the norm now. I don’t think my steam library folders have seen more transfers between HDD and SSD ever.
With that said though, I did just order all the parts for a new PC, but that was only because of some good deals and am able to bring a bunch across. I’ve got a fair few parts that are still very new or low mileage, or were overspecced for the future and still have many years of viability left.
Very true, more of a Thanks Valve :)
Now just release the damn thing in Australia so I can buy one from someone other than the shady fb market scalpers.
I just bought a ROG Ally.
There’s a lot of stupid stuff written/on you tube about it, but it’s great and clearly a notch up on the Steam Deck in most ways.
Were it not so extremely expensive in my currency I’d already be using one. I just spent slightly more than that for a rig that will last me close to 10years. I really want to see more competition in the handheld space, near future is looking promising, but its not there yet.
sorry, best we can do is “lol”
This comment so accurate my heart aches
Is it actually truly the year of the Linux desktop?
Is it for me this year. Both the main and couch gaming rigs are on Linux now. Glad to be free
Linux desktop has basically become the Be-so-good they-can’t-ignore-you man
Linux gets better and and Windows gets worse.
Meanwhile Macs still cost a God damn fortune and you still can’t repair them.
It helps that Microsoft has been alienating their customers and set high bars for OS upgrades.
Can confirm. Would probably be maining windows if the workspaces actually… functioned…
This is definitely a major reason. Windows 11 forces TPM 2, random hardware requirements that make no sense, and is objectively a downgrade from windows 10 (like every other windows version always is). Since Windows 10 is two years out from EoL and all major Linux distros have gotten so much better… might as well upgrade while you can still go back to 10 should you need to, before you have to be on Linux or throw out a bunch of otherwise fine computers.
Not until you can actually choose it. Think if you could in the store see Linux Desktop to buy and to try out.
What if EU forced computer manufactures to install both OS, Windows and Linux Desktop, and you had to choose during the first boot what you want to use. Trust me, the that will change the numbers, just because of all who picked the wrong one by mistake.
hint: the wrong one is Windows.
The Linux handheld
Speaking of…Lenovo announced the Legion Go handheld. Can we put Linux on it?
I’ll give it 1 hour after launch
I bet someone will leak a prototype and the GitHub will be up and public before it launches. That seems to be the latest trend for people trying to make headlines on tech.
It’s very likely. But why buy a Lenovo handheld? They are shit at customer service, they are terrible at updating their software, they preferably don’t contribute back to Linux. I have a fabulous Lenovo tablet that was updated once, and the update was shit, a terrible experience, they didn’t release the source code to build the required kernel modules for it to be usable. The firmware had to be modded as hell to prevent it to be a very expensive brick.
I kind of don’t want Linux to become mainstream tbh because then corporate enshittification becomes a much more real threat.
That’s why you just use a community run distro. Also if the kernel it self gets enshittified then I’m sure there will be a fork someone will make. Heck right now there’s the libre kernel that is just the Linux kernel with no proprietary blobs
They’ve already tried. Ever heard of Ubuntu?
These corporate interests are the reason it works so good. If you read into the Linux mailing list, major lifting is done by these companies.
Intel, AMD, Suse, Red Hat to name a few, all they follow are their corporate interests.
Some things just need money to be thrown at, i don’t have a problem with benefiting from money of corporations. It also makes it more accessible for people who are not able or willing to pay.
There are paid distros already out there, but there will always be the option to ignore them.
You cannot enshittify the GPL 🥹
Do you all think that if the market share gets high enough we’ll see ports of professional software like autocad or adobe?
Maybe.
The investment vs payoff is all they care about
We would probably have to go way beyond 3%
Ye most definitely
Bricscad runs on linux- a lot of professional work could be moved over, but its the hack’n’patch stuff that’s holding a lot of things together that won’t work.
Of all devices are steam decks probably no
After many years of thinking about it i finally gave Linux a try on my main PC and was met with the unfortunate realization that HDR support was non existent for NVIDIA cards and had to switch back to Windows.
HDR will probably be supported in a year or two, so you might want to give it a try again at some point. There’s ongoing work to enable HDR.
Thing is there will always be these sorts of features that are initially only supported on Windows as long as Linux is not a priority platform. So there will always be excuses to not switch :(
Yes, and Desktop Linux won’t ever be as big as Windows, so long as almost all pc’s sold ship with Windows or macOS.
But I feel like the excuses get less and less. Besides mixed DPI, HDR and VR I don’t think there’s much missing. Obviously there’ll always be apps that only run on Windows or Linux, but that’s fine.
But you’re right. In a few years there’ll be a new feature not (yet) supported on Linux. Let’s see how long it takes for FSR3 to work on Linux.
Only for Nvidia?
More likely only not for NVIDIA
could you explain what you mean by this thanks :)
Nvidia has been notoriously bad for Linux on the desktop. Linus Tolvalds has commented about their lack of support here and it has gotten better since then but not by much. Nvidia doesn’t like to play nice they only do things their way
Nah. Nvidia is still Nvidia, but 2 years ago or so they finally gave up and started supporting GBM and even opened part of their driver stack.
Some things, like hardware encoder are even easier to set up than AMD’s counterpart. (Mainly because Nvidia proprietary driver being supported better than AMD’s proprietary driver)
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That was me, I switched my desktop and laptop to ubuntu.
Haja you beat me to this comment
Same here. Switched my laptop to Pop!OS + KDE and planning on doing the same with the desktop soon-ish
They could probably add android and ios tablets to desktop stats
That is very little and propably due to steam deck.
You say that like it’s a bug, not a feature.
Which is not a desktop.
At that rate market share will double after about four years. Since it took a hell of a lot more than four years to get to this point then that means that growth is accelerating.
That looks like a pretty solid base before microsoft attempts to decommission millions of computers that have many years of useful life left. I wish I could say that’s great for me, but more of that hardware is going to end up in local landfills than resold.
