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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://github.com/OpenStatsLab/statcounterdata/blob/5c0460384f14a198d5a6614beccd1c866c17c1db/parsed/os/desktop.json#L1481:

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (21 children)

There's never been a bad year for the Linux desktop. The share size doesn't matter. So, yes, it is the year of the Linux desktop in my book and it has been that way for decades.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (12 children)

The share size doesn't matter.

Gotta disagree with you there. Market adoption should be a primary concern of those who care about the Linux ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

Steam deck BAYBEE. None of the other pocket computers have my attention now if they arent built for Valves version of Linux

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Agreed. It's just the joke, as always.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Worldwide 3.77%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

India 15.21%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

And here in Sweden were I live it's just 1.41% :(

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/sweden

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

People are dumb here, they buy apple.

"Hey look at my new iPhone that costs 20000 sek and can't do anything important better than the last five previous iPhones "

But it's really fast at idling in people's pockets.

I admit the MacBook air has a nice cpu, it stays cool. But most people don't use anywhere near what the cpu is capable of.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And now imagine here in the US where every single person has an iPhone and everything Apple. They are completely brainwashed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Critical thinking seems to be a thing of the past... Maybe it's because they feel like we are on the end stretch of society anyway, may as well enjoy the days left.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What???

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Given the size of Estonia, I'll assume that was the work of one single Linux supersoldier who spent the whole month entering homes at night and installing Linux on whatever computer they could find.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Go India! duck yeah! Woohoo \o/

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago

It's certainly the year of the Linux handheld!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what portion of that is steam decks.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Me too. As one data point, I don't use mine to access the web. However, it did get me confident with Linux as a viable choice for my desktop today. I went on to install it dual boot on my main and rarely if ever open Windows. It's probably a couple months behind in updates.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

In the end I just uninstalled windows because every time I opened it, it tried installing all updates and I had to wait 20-30 mins to get to the desktop

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And don't forget the ten different single app updaters because there's no centralized update system. There's just so much stuff running all the time.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wow damn 4% holy shit.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago

That's honestly quite a lot, nice

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (4 children)

As much as I hate to say it, I wonder how much of these are Chromebooks

[–] HobbitFoot 69 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Growth is being driven a lot by the Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

This is mostly from browser stats though.

Sure, you can browse on it, but I wouldn't have thought it enough to skew the numbers in any meaningful way.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

It looks like ChromeOS is reported separately in those stats

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Some of it's India.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

It looks like Linux will be mainstream in India in the next decade. I'm excited since a small fraction of the incredible amount of users will become distro developers.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I moved to Linux last year, but from a Mac so not sure how much I'm moving needles.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I switched to Ubuntu 22.04 on 2023-12-31. I had used a bunch of other distros back in 2008-2012, then got tired of manually tweaking things constantly. Things have come a long way and there are way more options to make things work. I don't have to spend hours on the CLI or reboot frequently.

So yeah, I'm going to stick with Ubuntu for a bit, then switch to something else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (9 children)

These days, you probably won't need all that tweaking.

I'd recommend Linux Mint.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The repo at the link doesn’t really explain where the data is from, does anyone know?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

The URL saves 'statcounterdata' so maybe from https://gs.statcounter.com?

Which has Linux at just under 4% for Jan 2024, and if you include Chrome OS then it's over 5%. link

Statcounter provides free analytics by embedding their code in your site. And their stats come from aggregating all the data from all the sites that use their analytics.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (21 children)

I'm trying my very best to love Linux but I'm having so much trouble with Mint.

I'm running a Mint vm on a proxmox to try it out and for some reason my back button and forward button on my mouse maps to the scroll wheel. The scroll wheel is mapped correctly. I installed Spice to improve performance and so far it's amazing, but the mouse is annoying.

If I run RDP, it works perfectly, but the lag is too annoying.

Does anyone here have suggestions? Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If I were you I would install Mint on a second drive.

Pretty sure your issues aren't with Mint they're with the virtualization platform.

You can get a cheap $40 SSD and install the OS on that.

Be sure to unplug the windows drive before installing Mint to the other drive. Then plug the Win drive back in. Now you can use the bios boot menu to boot into either.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've run Mint in Virtual Box on Windows with no issues. Really though, the move from Windows to Mint is best done on bare metal.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Any OS is kinda garbage on VM. I tried to run windows in a VM on my linux, the performance is pure garbage, usbs are tricky and so on

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I switched to Linux last year so I'm doing my part

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, I was just going to ask if it was 2% a couple years ago, then checked the link. That is a really fast increase.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Unknown" goes from 3 to 6% in the same time period, so I think technically it's the year of the Unknown desktop. Sounds catchier, if you ask me.