Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.
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Thanks, Steam Deck.
Now just release the damn thing in Australia so I can buy one from someone other than the shady fb market scalpers.
sorry, best we can do is “lol”
This comment so accurate my heart aches
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.
Most OS statistics come from web usage which is probably pretty minimal for Steam Decks.
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.
Very true, more of a Thanks Valve :)
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.
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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.
For me, the Year of Linux on the Desktop was 2021. There’s literally only one computer in the house running Windows anymore, and that’s simply to run some of the pro-level software I use for gig work (and so I’ll never be entirely rid of it).
Proton’s improvements were a big step in transitioning my PC gaming to Linux. There are still a lot of games that won’t run on Linux, but… there are so many that do, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out.
Just an FYI that at this rate it’s only going to take another 115 years before Linux has 100% market share.
This is the same logic that a right wing ex-president of my country used to criticize the current leftist president while talking about the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
2138 is the year of the Linux desktop!
2138, year of the Linux desktop.
Exacting 100years after y2k38
What if S-curve instead of linear rate?
You mean Linux isn’t going to have 200% market share one day? Shit, I’m starting to think my calculations may have not been totally serious.
Entirely possible if the population dubbles
I get that, I just like math
Market share is usually a curve.
That’s for August. And the growth is exponential, not linear.
To a point. Let’s be honest it’s going to be more like an S-curve since you can’t go past 100% market share, and some people will refuse to switch.
And people not wanting to switch is fine imo. Having competition will likely help all OS’s get better over time
i mean i’d prefer the competition to be BSD and such, not windows and macos
That’s fine, there’s no rush.
Why would market share increase linearly?
People are really late to the party but better late then never…
Linux is awesome.
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.
Clear victory
wow i didn’t expect that would be the case for us lol
Didn’t think that the difference would be way lesser in India!
I wonder what unknown is.
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
The Linux handheld
Speaking of…Lenovo announced one, the Legion Go. Can we put Linux on it?
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’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.
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.
Linux desktop has basically become the Be-so-good they-can’t-ignore-you man
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.
Linux gets better and and Windows gets worse.
Meanwhile Macs still cost a God damn fortune and you still can’t repair them.
Proud to be one of them. I tried to disable the job that runs windows update, they said I don’t have permission, so I switched to Ubuntu on every single computer except the one that runs VR games.
As a bonus, as an enthusiast for artificial intelligence stuff, more programs run on Linux than they do on Windows
On the VR PC you may find O&O ShutUp 10. It has a collection of settings for privacy and generally control over your PC that microsoft didn’t make really accessible.
Powershell as admin then type set-service wuauserv -startuptype manual; stop-service wuauserv
This will disable the windows update service. If you do want to run updates again (and you should do that regularly), just type start-service wuauserv and use the windows update page in settings.
Linux is still way better though.
What’s with the big spike in “unknown” at the same time as Windows market share going down a bunch?
I heard rumors that the Indian government switched to some specific Unix like that has accounted for a lot of that, but I have zero experience on the matter aside from someone saying that could be it.
did they fully adapt into this?
Unlikely. Different Indian govt departments use different distributions, but they are usually forks of Debian, Ubuntu or Red Hat.
That shouldn’t be uknown as its ubuntu based. The previous ones Ive used was debian based. It was pretty much stock with some wallpaper and basic customization. Also in most cases never updated.
I remember once reading here that there was a bug that made Windows show up as “unknown”
I don’t know, buf I remember seeing all of that change had originated from India. So something happened there, I think
Isn’t India developing their own Linux-based OS for all of their government’s computers to use?
That was me, I switched my desktop and laptop to ubuntu.
Same here. Switched my laptop to Pop!OS + KDE and planning on doing the same with the desktop soon-ish
Haja you beat me to this comment
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They could probably add android and ios tablets to desktop stats
I helped! I installed Linux Mint on 2 of my friends aging laptops.
Seriously considering swapping over to my Linux partition as main and virtualizing the Windows side this weekend. Still need the Windows because well, I make Windows software.
Why do you make Windows software?
It’s fun, they pay me for it, I’m good at it, and I can work entirely from home.
Job?
Who has those?
Apparently God’s found whole new ways to test him.
🤡
Is this some r/antiwork insanity?
Every hour spent on developing Windows software is completely wasted time of your life. Especially when you understand the importance of GNU/Linux and FOSS. Windows keeps the user enslaved. But most people won’t understand that, they don’t want to. So all I can reply to that is 🤡
I wish librewolf had a toggle for its user agent. The default user agent is windows and you can’t change it without extensions
Welp I’m of those “windows” users then 😉
What I want to know is how many people are using Librewolf on Linux. I imagine it isnt’t a small number
One of the things i give my privacy up to, representing Linux to make a change.
