I dunno .32% in a single month seems pretty significant. Obviously it’s not like Windows is going to go the way of the dodo but it’s looking like Linux may be taking a permanent piece of the pie where it had no staying power before.
I hate to say it, but it’s literally PewDiePie recording a video and showing young gaming fans Linux and calling it “cool”. That’s it. The guy’s got 110M subscribers.
Maybe. But so what? Pewdiepie wouldn’t have made the video if windows didn’t have serious problems, and if Linux wasn’t an incredibly good kernel to build an OS on.
That video highlighted that you don’t have to be technical to use Linux, it’s here, and it’s ready for mass adoption.
Linux’s market share didn’t grow by 0.32%, it grew by 0.32 percentage points. It actually grew by 12.5% month-over-month. That huge. It went from 2.57% to 2.89%, which is only an increase of 0.32 percentage points. But that’s because the starting value is such a small percentage. But, the number itself grew by about 12.5%:
2.57 * 1.125 = 2.89
If it could keep up this month-by-month growth it would go from 2.57% to over 10% within 1 year. If it could keep it up for 2 years Linux would be nearly half of all Steam users.
On one hand, I don’t think that would happen because the people making the switch now are early adopters and more adventurous users, so at some point it’s going to slow down. On the other hand, I think adoption will speed up at some point once there’s a critical mass of Linux users and Valve and nVidia start putting even more effort into Linux builds.
I think we’ll see a bump in users centred around October, since that is when MS had announced support for Windows 10 ended. They have recently announced that you can (maybe) get into the Extended Security Updates program for a year for free, but that’s perhaps too little too late.
If there’s any company that can make money from users installing Linux instead of Windows, that October deadline is a great time for a publicity blitz.
Relative, it is. Going front 2% to 2.32% (for example) is pretty good, though I don’t know where these numbers come from because the latest I saw had Linux at about 5%, and growing by something like 50-100% per year (for a year). Sure, the total number compared to Windows looks small, but compared to where it was it’s growing incredibly quickly.
Edit: Someone said that was monthly, in which case yeah, that’s pretty fucking big.
While okay this is growth, it’s not exactly meteoric. Hopefully the trend picks up steam (cough) as the win10 EOL approaches.
Well uh… if that is month to month growth…
A year at .32% growth works out to about 4% growth, if that is rate is sustained for a year.
That would be roughly a doubling of linux marketshare in a year.
I dunno .32% in a single month seems pretty significant. Obviously it’s not like Windows is going to go the way of the dodo but it’s looking like Linux may be taking a permanent piece of the pie where it had no staying power before.
I hate to say it, but it’s literally PewDiePie recording a video and showing young gaming fans Linux and calling it “cool”. That’s it. The guy’s got 110M subscribers.
Maybe. But so what? Pewdiepie wouldn’t have made the video if windows didn’t have serious problems, and if Linux wasn’t an incredibly good kernel to build an OS on.
That video highlighted that you don’t have to be technical to use Linux, it’s here, and it’s ready for mass adoption.
It’s about half a million active users. So, yeah, a tiny city’s worth.
Though things often start snowballing this way and Windows 10 end of life is likely see see a jump.
Actually, it is meteoric.
Linux’s market share didn’t grow by 0.32%, it grew by 0.32 percentage points. It actually grew by 12.5% month-over-month. That huge. It went from 2.57% to 2.89%, which is only an increase of 0.32 percentage points. But that’s because the starting value is such a small percentage. But, the number itself grew by about 12.5%:
2.57 * 1.125 = 2.89If it could keep up this month-by-month growth it would go from 2.57% to over 10% within 1 year. If it could keep it up for 2 years Linux would be nearly half of all Steam users.
On one hand, I don’t think that would happen because the people making the switch now are early adopters and more adventurous users, so at some point it’s going to slow down. On the other hand, I think adoption will speed up at some point once there’s a critical mass of Linux users and Valve and nVidia start putting even more effort into Linux builds.
I think we’ll see a bump in users centred around October, since that is when MS had announced support for Windows 10 ended. They have recently announced that you can (maybe) get into the Extended Security Updates program for a year for free, but that’s perhaps too little too late.
If there’s any company that can make money from users installing Linux instead of Windows, that October deadline is a great time for a publicity blitz.
So 2026 year of the Linux?
Relative, it is. Going front 2% to 2.32% (for example) is pretty good, though I don’t know where these numbers come from because the latest I saw had Linux at about 5%, and growing by something like 50-100% per year (for a year). Sure, the total number compared to Windows looks small, but compared to where it was it’s growing incredibly quickly.
Edit: Someone said that was monthly, in which case yeah, that’s pretty fucking big.