I am one of the converts from this year, still on Windows for work, but my personal set up is all Linux now. I went with Linux Mint and the transition has been seamless.
Sames, but I would not call my transition seamless, I had to tweak a lotta things to get there and had to write a few bash scripts to do all the things I needed
That’s part of the fun as soon as you see how much control you really have over your computer once you make the jump. Hope you’re enjoying it.
Is this because more people are using Linux, or because less people are using desktop/laptop computers in general? GenZ/Alpha are basically just about phones these days, and large numbers of older generations are probably moving that way, if just because of the cost of PCs now.
Not saying interest in Linux isn’t growing… but I’d imagine it’s less about that and more about traditional computers just not being as much of a thing for non-enthusiasts. Enthusiasts being the most likely to make the switch.
That’s a great question to be asking, mobile usage on the internet keeps growing, students are also using more tablets (iOS or Android) and Chrome Books at university over traditional laptops.
At the end of the day it’s how small the Windows percentage will be.
My cynical nature says its just steam decks and people not using/unable to afford PCs anymore.
My anecdotal experience says ive swapped 6 of my own family members to linux and know of at least 3 people doing the same, so it might be real
theres millions of PCs out there that cant run Windows 11 for stupid reasons, no reason to not believe some of them are getting linux’d to keep being used.
mobile/desktop proportions are pretty much stabilized these days. You can check that in that same data source, or on cloudflare stats
Holy
You know when we said it’s the year of
It was 3.5% at best at the beginning of the year. It is finally happening.
When has Microsoft started enforcing that mandatory online account bullshit in Windows installer? Was it like 3 years ago? I’ve had 4 computers with Windows in my home. Now it’s just 1, the other 3 have been running Linux since then because I’m fucking sick and tired of always looking up those dumbass bypass methods. I’m only dealing with Windows on last one because of gaming. And honestly, can’t wait the day I can migrate that one to Linux full time too. Unfortunately it’s not there yet for me.
It’s crazy how fast that day is coming though. Seriously wild how quickly things have changed for Linux and Gaming.
Seriously wild how quickly things have changed for Linux and Gaming
if I was windoze, Id be scared as shit right about now
I don’t think they have any kind of grasp on reality, so they still probably think they can’t fail. Seeing them slowly implode is so much fun right now.
MSFT has relied on their vendor lock’n strategy for 30 years now. It is truly awesome to see their grip weaken. It’s especially awesome to see all their free capital tied up in the AI war, so they have no money to throw around and enforce their market dominance.
Empires fall my friend, specially if they have a fucking ‘Nero’ at the helm.
Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about the common consumer. Their dough comes from business and enterprise clients. Azure the hill they’ll die on.
Gen Z / Alpha tend to be quite in tune with the latest tech trends… Linux is pretty much the only choice out there that allows one to retain control and opt out of AI slop.
I don’t quite buy the theory of bot. Most of these bots are designed to be stealthy to prevent bocking, and the easiest way to do that is by changing user agents to match the most popular OS and browser, thus preventing fingerprinting.
I am not doubting there are much more bots on the internet and many of them are using linux user agent, but I feel there also should be disproportionate amount of bot reporting as windows rather than linux.
Hello all, fellow convert this year. My entire household is on one distro or another. Spreading the gospel to family and friends of course.
My money’s on such a jump just being AI bots using headless browsers.
I don’t know exactly what’s going on. But I do know that 3.5% to 10.5% in a few months is so beyond anything ever observed before, the notion that this is users adopting Linux over Windows/Mac cleanly and organically severely strains my credulity.
If you dive further into the stats, this increase is almost exclusively from the US. Mexico went from around 2 percent in May to 6 percent in June and July, and Canada actually went down from 5.6 percent in June to 3.8 percent in July, which, while it was larger than May’s 3.1 percent, seems like it’s within error.
I did get kind of carried away creating so many LXCs and VMs in Proxmox between then and now…
If this is not the year, I don’t know what is.
wait people are still using os x??
MacOS is very popular. Many places uses OSX as the name for macOS, which is stupid.
It’s just a hold over from a previous time in Apple’s desktop naming scheme. System 6, 7, 8, 9, to (Mac) OS X and finally to macOS. OS X ran from 2001 till 2020 when big Sur released.
That explanation would make sense if it didn’t show 21% OSX and 8.6% macOS
so tons of people are still running really old macs i guess?
I wonder how much is absolute user gains and what proportion is explained by people leaving the desktop pool because mobile is enough for their basic use cases.
I’m only on Windows because of Adobe
Professional use? I feel you if so.
I did graphics for screen printing in Inkscape, Krita and Gimp.
Some stuff was way better in Photoshop, but I had to boot back to Linux to print transparencies.
yeah my job uses an adobe workflow. i use krita for my personal work, i prefer it for painting and animation