Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.

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[–] 138 points 3 years ago (8 children)
  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Most OS statistics come from web usage which is probably pretty minimal for Steam Decks.

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  • [–] 56 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    It's not so much about browsing on steam decks. It's about the technical improvements Valve has brought to Linux gaming compatibility that has now made full Linux conversion without a Windows dual-boot for gaming (and many other Windows programs) a true reality. Once people don't have to reboot every time they want to start a game they'll stay in Linux full time.

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    [–] 103 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Just an FYI that at this rate it's only going to take another 115 years before Linux has 100% market share.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    This is the same logic that a right wing ex-president of my country used to criticize the current leftist president while talking about the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

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    [–] 50 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    The critical mass needed to tip the scales is not high. Once Linux has enough market share to matter as a customer base, game studios will switch to developing as cross-platform for it by default, so that they don't lose launch sales. Once this happens, a lot of people won't have any reason to stay on windows anymore as gaming was the only thing holding them back. This will then create a virtuous cycle of users migrating and games (and then apps) switching to it. Along then come hardware vendor supporty and then pre-built PCs and laptops. If the tipping point is reach, the rate of market share gain will be exponential.

    The same thing happened with Internet Explorer 6

    The only thing that can stop this is outside pressure from software giants like Microsoft through lobbying the Governments, buying out game studios or buying exclusivity, or strong-arming hardware vendors.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    MacOS holds a nearly 30% market share and few game developers give a shit about publishing their games on Mac. Why would Linux be any different?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    Because linux doesn't have deprecated opengl, doesn't run their own proprietary api for gpu instead of implementing vulkan and last but not least because linux does still have support for 32bit application.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Other than gamers, there's a huge share of enterprise Windows users. And they're not likely to shift OS, because of IT admin issues. Others in this thread have commented on how Apple is struggling to get devs to build native games compared to Windows.

    Sure the number of home PC users might decline, one can always hope.

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  • Oh yeah

    This is the year

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That was me, I switched my desktop and laptop to ubuntu.

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    [–] 35 points 3 years ago

    People are really late to the party but better late then never....

    Linux is awesome.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Is it actually truly the year of the Linux desktop?

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Linux desktop has basically become the Be-so-good they-can't-ignore-you man

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It helps that Microsoft has been alienating their customers and set high bars for OS upgrades.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    This is definitely a major reason. Windows 11 forces TPM 2, random hardware requirements that make no sense, and is objectively a downgrade from windows 10 (like every other windows version always is). Since Windows 10 is two years out from EoL and all major Linux distros have gotten so much better... might as well upgrade while you can still go back to 10 should you need to, before you have to be on Linux or throw out a bunch of otherwise fine computers.

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    [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Partly my fault - I have that page set to auto open on my browser every week

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wow, if it keeps going at this rate, it'll be the year of Linux on the desktop (50% share) in 2079.

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Proud to be one of them. I tried to disable the job that runs windows update, they said I don't have permission, so I switched to Ubuntu on every single computer except the one that runs VR games.

    As a bonus, as an enthusiast for artificial intelligence stuff, more programs run on Linux than they do on Windows

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    [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    All the linux fanboys just ejaculated at once

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Is Linux actually growing, or are other users simply buying fewer computers because their phones have reduced the need for personal computers?

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    I helped! I installed Linux Mint on 2 of my friends aging laptops.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Glad to be part of the trend. Literally just yesterday, I got rid of Windows and installed Pop OS instead.

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Seriously considering swapping over to my Linux partition as main and virtualizing the Windows side this weekend. Still need the Windows because well, I make Windows software.

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I wish librewolf had a toggle for its user agent. The default user agent is windows and you can't change it without extensions

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    [+] 19 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)
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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    There are no longer just 5 of us! There are now 6 of us, YES!

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    [–] 11 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    After many years of thinking about it i finally gave Linux a try on my main PC and was met with the unfortunate realization that HDR support was non existent for NVIDIA cards and had to switch back to Windows.

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    [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Glad to be part of the trend! Recently converted my 12 year old MacBook Pro to Fedora and it's running incredibly well. Have used command line Linux for work for years, but have really been enjoying it with a GUI in a desktop setting.

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