• henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    This is a big deal. More Linux users leads to more Linux-supporting software, which leads to more users.

    The biggest resistence is front-loaded into that first few percent.

    In my opinion, advancements in binary compatibility accross distributions (Flatpak, AppImage, …) and broad compatibility with Windows software (Wine and forks… thank you Valve!) are making Linux easier to use.

    • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      This is a big deal. More Linux users leads to more Linux-supporting software, which leads to more users.

      It should correlate with more donations , the donations linux mint are getting are also growing fairly consistently. the same is true for the “Open Source Collective” which is a fiscal host for open source projects.

    • Baldur Nil@programming.dev
      0·
      4 months ago

      At the same time, I feel like nowadays there’s less forums or places people can ask help with, although today ChatGPT can be a good help with newbie questions.

      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
        0·
        4 months ago

        I feel like nowadays there’s less forums or places people can ask help with

        I’m sorry, what??

        There are more places than ever to find support. The Ubuntu forums, EndeavourOS forums, Manjaro forums, NixOS forums, SUSE forums, etc. Just about every larger distro has it’s own forum and they’re all very active. Then there are general Linux, Linux “newbie”, Linux help communities on the various Lemmy servers and (whether you like it or not) on Reddit also. Then there’s Mastodon. General tech forums like Level1Tech, Hacker News, etc.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
    1·
    3 months ago

    I really really hope this will lead to some major UX improvements as more “normal people” start trying to use Linux. Currently, it’s still often too complicated or cumbersome, if not downright buggy.

    Example: I run Kubuntu and about 20% of the time when I plug in my external monitors, all my windows just crash. Things need to get to a state of “just working” much more often and in many more cases. I hope this surge of users will motivate people to move towards that or maybe bring in more contributors to advance that area.

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Great for portable gaming machines ✅️

    Resurrect old Pc/laptops ✅️

    Great for Servers ✅️

    Gratis and open sources✅️

    Feed multiple derivated systems with his codes (for free) ✅️

    Is not Windows ✅️✅️✅️

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      3 months ago

      Why would you use a linear approximation, this clearly looks like exponential growth (for the last 9 years).

      Linux will obviously achieve 100% market share within the next few years.

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
    0·
    4 months ago

    Yeah there’s no way I trust their methodology has stayed that stable over 15 years. Hell if you just look in the last year supposedly 3% of global users jumped from Mac to Windows in a single month (Nov 2023).

    There are also loads of new Linux device classes that may have Linux in their user agent but aren’t really “the year of the Linux desktop” that you’re thinking of. It seems they try to count ChromeOS (though badly - seems like “Unknown” contains a lot of ChromeOS depending on the month), and obviously Android, but what about Steam Deck? Smart devices with web browsers built in? Is your Tesla desktop Linux?

    I’d buy it’s gone up; not to 4% though. I would be moderately surprised if 4% of web users had even heard of Linux.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Yeah there’s no way I trust their methodology has stayed that stable over 15 years.

      There’s likely some decently sized error bars. I’m not sure how accurate Statcounter is. It would be nice to see data independently acquired by another service to increase the confidence level. If Statcounter is only checking the useragent, then the accuracy of the data is certainly lacking, but the trend is worthy of note, or, at least, further investigation.

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    Probably the biggest drivers are Microsoft (being greedy pigs and making their UX worse) and Valve (promoting gaming on Linux). It should’ve been the Linux Foundation, IMO, but allocated spend 2% of their budget to linux.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

  • rainynight65@feddit.orgEnglish
    01·
    4 months ago

    You could almost be forgiven for not realising that every point on that Y axis is a mere half percent…