Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:
After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.
Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it’s growing fast.
I just installed Mint the other day. I was pussy footing around with trying to create a persistent USB drive but the bootloader was fighting me. I finally just hovered over the “wipe drive and install” button for a while before I finally clicked and let it rip. Never again M$.
dual booting would be a pain in the ass, both setting it up and post-setup
Dual booting is dumb easy with most Linux installers. I’ve been dual booting two different Linux partitions for years.
Do you use different harddrives for your partitions? Because that might be the reason you dont have that much problems. From what I heard windows likes to wipe all boot entries that aren’t windows and are located on the same drive.
Nope same hard drive, but windows hasn’t touched my PC in nearly a decade, so that’s probably why I never have issues.
Setup is piss easy, just hit install. The real pain is the random Windows update that will wipe all boot entries that aren’t Microsoft’s
That was the conclusion that pushed me over.
I think the best solution is to just have Windows on other drive, that way it shouldn’t touch Linux drive’s bootloader.
I first tried Ubuntu then switched to pop os and haven’t looked back. Feels great to be free of MS.
I wanted to visualize this, so:
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After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year
and converted it to:
2011,1 2021,2 2023,3 2024,4 2025,6Since my mobile client renders the terminal output poorly,
Proof that Linux use is rising asymptotically, and there will be infinity Linux users by 2030.
Edit I just discovered something nasty about Lemmy, at least in how the instance I’m on is configured. Lemmy rewrites comments to proxy image requests of external sources through the Lemmy server, but the proxy doesn’t work for some reason, so it fucks up the image; therefore, you can’t see it. Not cool, Lemmy. Not cool.
Every child born is a new Linux user
I’m eagerly waiting this rise. We run a proprietary CAD that always had a Unix \ Linux version in parallel with Windows, it was the better option once W10 took over W7 because W10 made it run slow and Linux version was peppy…Fast forward a few years and CAD vendor kills Linux GUI version citing only 1% usage globally. So here’s me hoping they start reversing that decision.
Let’s all set our user-agent to 2001 WinXP running IE
With recent articles claiming some games run better on Linux, I could see this sort of jump actually being possible
My first operating system was AmigaOS 1.3, then I didn’t have a computer through my teenage years and only in 2001 I bought a PC and a magacine with a Suse Linux CD in it which I installed on that PC. But I couldn’t get the 56k modem to work with it because some drivers were missing. So I had to switch for a year to Windows 2000 (or 98, I don’t remember). But then I had a girlfriend who had a PC which was connected to the internet via ADSL, so I could do the research on that her computer while installing Debian on my computer from a 3.5 inch floppy disk (I found a network installer which fit on the disk). So I only had to use Windows for about a year.
There was another exception where I had a MacBook from 2008 to 2012 but other than that I’ve been on Linux for most of my life. Oh and I use Arch btw.
6% now that’s what I like to hear! It’s time for developers to make Linux first native apps!
Omg there are so many of them out there already, even I just released one a couple of weeks ago: https://jeena.github.io/recoder/
Check out GNOME Circle for high profile apps: https://circle.gnome.org/ Or KDE Applications: https://apps.kde.org/ and so on.
I’ve switched both my laptop and desktop over to Linux (Bazzite and Fedora respectively) in the last 6 months.
The last time I tried to daily Linux (over a decade ago) I ended up switching back eventually, but this time I really don’t think I’ll need to. All of the games I play most often work perfectly, the dev tooling is even better than it is on Windows, and the hardware compatibility side has been completely flawless.
Gone are the days of having to hunt down obscure Linux drivers for your touchpad or webcam. Everything just works out of the box.
Is that because Linux run on more desktop computers, or just that there’s less desktop computers (and laptops) overall? When everybody switches to smartphones and AR/VR, and there’s bunch of geeks running Linux on their old rusty desktop setups, is that really something that should be celebrated?
Recently made the switch myself. Didn’t want to throw a way a perfectly fine for what I need computer because Microsoft doesn’t like it.
Developers best we can do is exe or dmg
