The revolution is coming!
What's with the big spike in "unknown" at the same time as Windows market share going down a bunch?
I remember once reading here that there was a bug that made Windows show up as "unknown"
Glad to be part of the trend! Recently converted my 12 year old MacBook Pro to Fedora and it's running incredibly well. Have used command line Linux for work for years, but have really been enjoying it with a GUI in a desktop setting.
Do you all think that if the market share gets high enough we'll see ports of professional software like autocad or adobe?
If I wasn't a noob gamer I'd have no use for Windows. Unfortunately I'm too dumb to figure out how to make games work, even on Mint.
It takes less than you think. It's not always windows-easy but a little troubleshooting and googling is usually all it takes. The biggest sticking point is anti-cheat, if the kind of games you like require it.
Wine, lutris and steam are your best friends on linux in terms of gaming
Honestly, given that there are many flaws in desktop Linux security, awareness of people about desktop Linux need to be parallel with better security practices : https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/linux-insecurities https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/desktop-linux-hardening/ I just hope that when people are more aware of desktop Linux, developers then need to be more aware of security and use available platforms or components with security in mind such as Flatpak, Wayland, MAC, Pipewire,... and kernel developers should have cared more about industry security practices, and please don't give ideological reasons there.
I don't really want Linux to become the dominant OS. I want Microsoft to release Windows under a free software license. Windows is actually not that bad an OS from a purely technical standpoint.
Of course this won't happen. The day they release it, world will collapse because of the newly discovered vulnerabilities and stuff. Security over obscurity is major player in securities of closed source programs.
They could probably add android and ios tablets to desktop stats
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