Linux

Thanks, Steam Deck.

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

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.

Oh yeah

This is the year

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

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

Linux is awesome.

Is it actually truly the year of the Linux desktop?

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

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

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

All the linux fanboys just ejaculated at once

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Clear victory

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.

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.