Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use.

cm0002@infosec.pub · 3 months ago

Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use.

drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 3 months ago

Oh shit, is this it? Is this actually the year of the Linux desktop?

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 3 months ago

I think so! It just took Windows shooting itself in the foot to do it.

zo0@programming.dev · 3 months ago

And it only took 728472994881 bullets!

halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 3 months ago

Don’t discount indirect thing like Sony announcing plans to abandon discs on the Playstation right as the Steam Machine launches with Linux and wide game compatibility via Proton. Even at its inflated price due to the Rampocalypse, it’s selling out constantly. It’s a perfect storm right now.

Ooops@feddit.org · 3 months ago

Seriously… there will never be a wide-spread year of the Linux desktop. Because that would require lobbying and investments to get devices with pre-installed Linux by default to the clueless majority that doesn’t actually know what an OS is anyway.

And once a Linux distro goes commercial to fill that requirement it is incentivised to implement all the usual crap and enshittification that are missing in Linux normally.