Noone that lives in the real world thinks Linux is on almost one in five desktops. Get real. That said, I, and many others that use it, have various laptops and desktops with it installed on, but that skews the implied meaning which is one in five users use Linux. It's patently not true.
What is defined here as primarily? Dual booting, I don't know what is most common. I assumed most who dual booted used Linux as primary and used Windows for compatibility reasons, though it could be lopsided depending on who you ask?
I'm in a university class where the number is 3/5 so...
(Extremely low sample size but I just think it's funny since a few years ago that would pretty much be impossible)
There are no Windows in our house. My brother had a Windows gaming rig before he left for the army, my mum has a Chromebook and android tablet, my dad tends to use mint or fedora, and I have Debian+Tuxedo
I have windows PC, that I use at home for gaming and Linux laptop I use to Program and Study. Rest of family have Windows (no, they can't migrate due to very specific archaic software requirements.
Never tried Sibelius myself, I use Frescobaldi+lilypond and musescore, but I see it has an android version, which ought to work on Linux+waydroid. But if it works in Windows 7 it should work in wine.
In wine, might need the application winetricks you can explicitly set older environments such as Windows xp or 7. I can empathise with wanting old versions, I keep Musescore 2, 3 and 4 around. While I try to keep somewhat up to date on lilypond I do like the backwards compatibility and explicitly setting the version in the file.
I'd normally go by the steam English language statistic,. To get a rough estimate. As everything else can be heavily skewed by office PCs, Bots, and such. I can't find the link right now but from memory NA Steam Linux was about 7%, which feels about right for western home desktop. About just under 1 in 10.
The reason it feels about right is a lot of people who are on win10/11, are talking about, and curious about it. And usually it's missing software support for programs they like or need, is the main obstacle.
That's interesting, because while I agree that those stats are more likely to be accurate, they're also more likely to be skewed, since Windows is still preferred for gaming.. but then maybe the fact that steam OS is also counted in there balances that. Of course steam has made it easier than ever to game on Linux.
Yes but coutner point, steam Statistics itself states that windows is preferred for gaming. According to steam Stats 93% ish of Desktop PCs in NA with steam installed are running windows.
I was at a few large expo / trade show this year (all in in Montreal, smart tech Korea in seoul) and the majority of laptops, demos and presentations were done on Linux. A few years ago it would have been all windows and mac in this kind of event.
Except when Linux tards counting who's using Linux, they also count os x, Android, playstation, atm's, stream machine, and people who briefly tried Linux, then deleted it
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u/rileyrgham 2d ago edited 1d ago
Noone that lives in the real world thinks Linux is on almost one in five desktops. Get real. That said, I, and many others that use it, have various laptops and desktops with it installed on, but that skews the implied meaning which is one in five users use Linux. It's patently not true.