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In all seriousness it's very exciting, I just don't need to see the same information worded 20 different ways from random clickbait sites lol
It did take like 20 years to reach 3 percent and now we're at 4 so I think it's alright to be excited.
Turning of the hockey stick. Invest now.
Ah yes, invest in Linux...
well, you can always donate to open source projects...
Stonks!
Look....I use Linux. I love Linux. But let's be honest. That 4 percent is largely due to the steam deck; a gaming handheld where the vast majority of users don't know (or care) what operating system it uses as long as they can play their steam games on the go.
That's not "year of the Linux desktop", because it's not a desktop. It just has one hidden under the hood if you want to dig past the steam layer (which, as I said...the vast majority of users never will)
The year of the Linux desktop won't arrive until there is sufficient market share that software manufacturers are inclined to support us natively. That won't happen with a gaming handheld because no one would want to use a gaming handheld as a daily driver.
Sorry to be a wet blanket, folks. Downvote away....
Thats like calling MacOS and Playstation rises the "year of the BSD desktop"
Change my mind.
Android devices are the true year of the Linux desktop.
Ok, compile some code on your PlayStation
Most computer users don't even know what an operating system is
I agree Steam Deck played a role, but they didn't sell enough to make that large of an increase. That'd be insane. However, it did cause the appearance of gaming on Linux to change, which is the thing that was holding back a large number of users.
I had used Linux several times over the past decade or so. It was never my main OS, and I had actually stopped using it completely for probably 5 years, maybe more. This is exclusively because gaming on Linux was an issue and I didn't want to swap OSs just to play a game. Last year I went 100% Linux. I know I'm not the only one, and I'm extremely confident that the increase is mostly this, not the Steam Deck. The number of Steam Decks sold seems to be maybe 6m on the high end of estimates, which is not enough.
The Steam Deck was a catalyst, but it is not the source of the change.
That is not really true as far as I can tell. Linux is growing because it is maturing as a ecosystem. We don't need a bunch of proprietary software to have a good experience
Only 1.63% of Steam users were using Linux in 2023. Since pretty much all Steam Deck users are going to be using Steam, we can't attribute Linux's increase in market share to the Steam Deck alone.
It's the year of the Linux phone! Oh wait that happened like 15 years ago and now they make up like 70% of the global market!
due to the steam deck
You sure? Not proton?
India, the country with the largest population, has a 15% desktop Linux marketshare.
Additionally, these surveys are highly inaccurate. They are at best a "conservatively low balled figure". Linux installations don't send a ping to a server anywhere to count the install, and there's no other facility to gauge or count through the Linux ecosystem itself. Most computers used for Linux are also sold with Windows pre-installed, which means there's no clean way to use sales figures either.
All that leaves is the browser user agent when visiting select websites that track and share the number of unique visitors that identify as Linux.
I did the math a few months ago in a different discussion (not on Lemmy) and my math at the time came up to about 50 million desktop Linux users, and that was using the "official" reported numbers of 3.x% at the time.
That also ignores that the Stack Overflow developer survey puts desktop Linux at over 50% for personal use, and (IIRC) about 47% for professional use.
But let's be honest
You can't be honest if you look at a single boiled down percentage of a very large, very diverse and technical landscape with more variations and caveats than the English language.
Also, in case anyone is wondering, the Stack Overflow numbers didn't include WSL. If you do include that then desktop Linux usage was over 70% for personal use.
It is actually a good thing because "I need windows for gaming" is the biggest reason why compsci and IT people still have windows.
You're still right that it won't win over non tech people though.
I'm pretty sure that this specific statistic leverages internet-user-agents. So a Steamdeck probably wouldn't be counted in as they aren't really used for browsing.
Linux Mint checking in!
We got it? Nice... Gotta go and make a meme about it.
If you can't beat 'em join 'em
There are memes about this??? Where can I find one?
Here's one https://programming.dev/post/11087762
Damn, I was about to reply saying a very polite "no shit, that's the joke" then decided to check the link in case it was funny. I've been had by my own shit. Thanks for that.
Every year is the year of the linux desktop. It's just that most don't know it yet.
every year since 2022 is the year of the Linux desktop. get used to it nerd
Every year since 1993 is the year is the Linux desktop 😎
Yesterday my school principal decided to install Debian on all the school computers, lol.
You would think schools would be all for it, especially since Microsoft office is a subscription service now.
All the schools I have seen are using Google docs and sheets.
Doesn't really matter when virtually any business they end up working for will be using Mac or Windows.
How big is the school? That seems like quite the chore for one guy
bro manually typing sudo apt update into 200 computers before learning he couldve just cloned the drive
And that's why you use NixOS instead!
You'll lose your shit when it hits 5%
Unironically, yes. That'll be a huge milestone. It'll probably happen pretty soon, too, with the way Linux adoption seems to be accelerating.
Damn, a lot of people bought Steam Decks.
Linux desktop and fusion energy have something in common, it seems.
No one realizes that the equation to calculate both of them have a limit where a value is devided by x where x is approaching 0
The only thing it can't do is leave the lab.
Are all top 500 super computers, all the computers at CERN, the servers at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Azure, Netflix, eBay, etc, just a lab?
To forestall the year 2038 problem maybe we could just start reckoning time based on years of the linux desktop.
Today is 06 March 33 YLD
The year of the Linux desktop is long ago, but this year definitely will be the year of Linux mobile
The combined number of years of my marriage and the ages of all of my children is a number that when subtracted from 2024 would not equal the first time I heard this.
Upvote for Jimmy Neutron meme
i'll switch 100% to linux when Logitech supports my steering wheel.
Which one? The G27/G920/G29 and some others are supported pretty much out of the box.
Not thanks to Logitech but they do work fine.
G928 and the pedals and shifter
We finally hopped ship this year. Some small bs antifeature finally pissed us off enough to (gasp) learn something new and now I can't find my way out of Vim.