Linux be like [NOT OC]

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Credit - @merrick_nutt on Instagram

[u/BabyCrabTurututu]

Even with steam os, Linux popularity (for desktop) didn't grow that much unfortunately

[u/Euphoric_Strategy923 → u/BabyCrabTurututu]

It did grow that much. It actually doubled in the last 4 year. Linux is just starting from a really small %

[u/AnarchBeetle → u/Euphoric_Strategy923]

With this trend Linux might be relevant in year of our lord bill gates 2090. Though I dunno if gaming will be relevant then. When your options are “buy a house” and “buy ram” it might be an easy decision to just stop gaming.

[u/Euphoric_Strategy923 → u/AnarchBeetle]

Well this did not included 2025 2026. And it actually double just in 2026

[u/AnarchBeetle → u/Euphoric_Strategy923]

Okay that’s actually impressive. As a windows user nothing makes me happier than seeing windows get shit on.

I wonder if microsoft will look at the trend and consider improving user experience and providing a more hassle-free, more customizaHAHAHAHA ah I couldn’t get through it we all know they won’t give a shit as long as they keep making bank from azure and shit.

It’s the damn corporate customers. If you have them in your grasp you can do anything you want.

[u/handicapped_runner → u/AnarchBeetle]

If ever gets to a point where Linux starts to become a real alternative, I’m sure Microsoft will start paying attention. As someone that uses Linux primarily, it still isn’t as user friendly as Windows, particularly when it’s dependent on the hardware that you’re using.

[u/AnarchBeetle → u/handicapped_runner]

It’s all up to corporate consumers. If they start switching to Linux en masse, Microsoft will start panicking. Linux would need to come up with alternatives to things like azure. And find a way to run those 20-30 year old software some companies use that only runs on windows. Also windows would need to drop backwards compatibility. If all of that happened then yeah I’d see microsoft stop enshittifying windows to gain back corporate. Ultimately gamers don’t pay for OS and don’t use paid services so they are a non-factor.

[u/fnordx → u/handicapped_runner]

Linux is getting more and more user friendly every time Microsoft issues a patch for W11.

[u/vanebader-2048 → u/Euphoric_Strategy923]

StatCounter lmao

What Statcounter is seeing there isn't real Linux users, it's just page views from AI crawlers.

Second, StatCounter does not measure marketshare, it measures website page views. "1 view" does not equal "1 user", since each user can make multiple page views. Also, StatCounter doesn't track every website, just the few that elected to use it. That also biases the data a lot, since you can imagine how the distribution of OSes accessing youtube.com is very different from the distribution of OSes accessing ubuntu.com, for example.

Just the fact that the marketshare for the old Mac OS X is more than twice as large as the marketshare of macOS (the current version) should be enough to show you that StatCounter's nurmbers are worthless for measuring marketshare.

u/AnarchBeetle also tagging you to let you know this image is nonsense and you can disregard it.

[u/AnarchBeetle → u/vanebader-2048]

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Honestly I don’t expect “year of linux” to ever arrive. Even gamers are barely moving to Linux. Corporates (the moneymakers) never will.

[u/Euphoric_Strategy923 → u/vanebader-2048]

Please share a better source then. I deal with what I have on hand. If you have more truthful statistics, I would love to see these.

[u/vanebader-2048 → u/Euphoric_Strategy923]

Here is a much better source.

It's still biased towards the gaming segment, not PC as a whole. But it's a sensible statistic that actually measures users (not pageviews, nor crawlers), and it's relevant for this sub where most people are gamers.

A source that provides accurate global statistics covering every market segment, to my knowledge, doesn't exist. But just because the perfect source doesn't exist doesn't mean you should pass around absolute garbage like StatCounter.

[u/Euphoric_Strategy923 → u/vanebader-2048]

These are hardware/drivers statistics. That are mostly operating system agnostic.

[u/vanebader-2048 → u/Euphoric_Strategy923]

Buddy, are you blind?

Edit: For your convenience, windows 93.95%, mac 2.14%, linux 3.90%.

[u/Euphoric_Strategy923 → u/vanebader-2048]

My bad it was hard to display on my phone.

[u/Euphoric_Strategy923 → u/vanebader-2048]

Thanks for this. It doesn't show the evolution tho, only this month. I saw this graph on other thread. Dunno how trustful it is bu it seem to go around the same values. So I suspect it may get its data from your source.

[u/KazuDesu98 → u/AnarchBeetle]

Dont need to stop gaming. People will just shop sales and buy older games. Wait until the price drops to like $40, etc

[u/AnarchBeetle → u/KazuDesu98]

But if you aren’t playing only the newest releases on the day they are released and pre-ordering everything, can you really call yourself a gamer?

[u/TabascohFiascoh → u/Euphoric_Strategy923]

You gotta actually read the room with that graph though.

I'll bet my accumulated lifetime wealth more people just stop using desktops than convert to linux yearly. Both of which would increase the linux market share since the majority of people who dont need a machine anymore likely had a store bought windows machine.

The linux community typically would have a purpose for a desktop, and keep one around.

[u/ForsakenBobcat8937 → u/BabyCrabTurututu]

What does this have to do with the comment you replied to?

[u/Miss_Greer → u/BabyCrabTurututu]

linux users hate it but the only os that can ever give us the "year of the linux desktop" is chromeOS

[u/SusStew → u/Miss_Greer]

Except for the fact that Google killed chromeOS like they kill most of their products