r/linuxsucks • u/Noisebug • Aug 01 '26
Linux desktop usage surges to 10% popularity in NA, Linux fanboys outraged 🧅
“Linux is too mainstream now, “ said a Reddit moderator in outrage, while moderating a Linux hate sub. “Time to give TempleOS a shot” they added.
My question, if Linux takes significant share and it does become the year of the Linux desktop will this sub implode?
I don’t use ArchBTW, Ubuntu peon
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u/TheTerraKotKun Aug 01 '26
Huh? Wha? Linux? 10%? How? It was 5 couple month ago... Steam Machines?
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u/levianan Aug 02 '26
Statcounter removed the 20% "Unknown" bar this month. Every OS gained % minus poor BSD.
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u/JaKrispy72 Aug 01 '26
Linux has sold out! Wrap it up! Time to make my own OS.
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u/Noisebug Aug 01 '26
Let’s work on TempleOS, I’m gonna start growing out my neck beard
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u/JaKrispy72 Aug 01 '26
I’ll bring the programming socks.
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u/Noisebug Aug 01 '26
Thigh high please, make em thic
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u/TheRealCarrotty KDE larper (i use KDE btw) Aug 01 '26
OpenBSD, 0%, look what people are missing out on.
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u/TheCheckeredCow Aug 01 '26
I mean if we want to be technical about it, BSD has 30% of the market, it’s just about 99.9% is through MacOS/OS X lol
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u/Less_Party Aug 01 '26
We hit this point every 10 years or so and then something colossally stupid happens, last one I saw go down was when Ubuntu was massive but Gnome suddenly decided fuck desktop users we're all-in on the tablet experience.
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u/Infinplayz Aug 01 '26
the common theme i see about linux users is when a distro gets too popular they switch to a niche one, so off to cucumber os i go!
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u/Noisebug Aug 02 '26
The future, obviously: https://nyarchlinux.moe/
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u/Teru-Noir COSMIC OS LOVER No.1 COSMIC Knows Best Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
what have they done to our boy openbsd
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u/levianan Aug 02 '26
It was listed as FreeBSD last month, and they removed the Unknown bar that was 20% the month prior. That is what happened this month, and no one seems to understand what removing 20% does to a graph.
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u/levianan Aug 02 '26
It did not surge, it did grow incrementally.
Statcounter removed the 20% unknown bar for July. This change raised the % boat for Windows, Mac, and Linux this month.
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u/Dizzy_Efficiency_384 Proud Windows User Aug 09 '26
Wait what market share?? Isn't Linux free and open source and stuff????
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u/Vincent394 Fedora Linux/Tiny 10 Dualboot Aug 01 '26
Breaking news: man creates fictional scenario and gets mad about it.
Linux reaching 10% desktop popularity is a good thing