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Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 25 points 1 month ago* (11 children)

I'm personally gonna call it,
2026 is legitimately the year of desktop Linux

Microsoft's fucked around with their users to a considerable degree that 10% happened this soon.

Fuck Microslop, Long Live Linux

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I don't think there will a "year" of the Linux desktop. The climb to take over will take more than a year. A "Decade of the Linux Desktop" seems more apt and I think this is it. 2020-2030 will be this change. SteamOS and Proton has bridged the Gaming gap and entry level for average users so well and it's only going to get better.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    2026 is legitimately the year of desktop Linux

    What is the exact qualification in order to be called "the year of the Linux desktop"? I have been using Linux on my desktop computer(s) for almost two decades. Was my year of the Linux desktop this year also?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    @victorz @recursive_recursion When it is on more PCs than either Windows or iOS.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    Is that a universally held definition?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    @victorz I think the Klingons and Ferengi are having doubts, but it will do for me!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    For me, it's when Linux was a viable desktop operating system to daily drive and still be fairly compatible with other operating systems, which was ages ago.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    @victorz For me, that was 1993. But I always took 'year of the desktop' to allude to the time when it became popular with other people.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    I feel like 50% market share is a bit steep. I think we're well past the point where anyone can and should be running Linux on the desktop.

    The possibility of it is there, and that's good enough for me, to be honest. Saying it's not the year until we already have dominance I feel is a bit too much to ask.

    But I guess it's about ambition. Do we want to include the downfall of Apple and Microsoft into this? Then we'll have to wait a long time, and work very hard.

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