Here's why Linux market share isn't going to skyrocket anytime soon (thelibre.news)

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You've heard the "prophecy": next year is going to be the year of the Linux desktop, right? Linux is no longer the niche hobby of bearded sysadmins and free software evangelists that it was a decade ago! Modern distributions like Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, and Linux Mint are sleek, accessible, and — dare I say it — mainstream-adjacent.

Linux is ready for professional work, including video editing, and it even manages to maintain a slight market share advantage over macOS among gamers, according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

However, it's not ready to dethrone Windows. At least, not yet!

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hardware support really sucks, as many hardware manufacturers only care about supporting M$ Windows.

There's a way to force them to provide drivers for Linux, let's say the trade commission in any country forces all devices to have drivers for Linux.

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