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[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 133 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's never been a bad year for the Linux desktop. The share size doesn't matter. So, yes, it is the year of the Linux desktop in my book and it has been that way for decades.

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

The share size doesn't matter.

Gotta disagree with you there. Market adoption should be a primary concern of those who care about the Linux ecosystem.

[-] Kedly@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago

Steam deck BAYBEE. None of the other pocket computers have my attention now if they arent built for Valves version of Linux

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The more it's adopted the more it will turn into windows.

[-] midnight@kbin.social 54 points 2 years ago

No it won't. The beauty of Linux is that it can transform completely to fit your needs.

Making Linux more noob friendly isn't going to take away my custom terminal-centric tiling wm arch install.

More users = more developers = more options. Linux is already awesome, but growing will only bring more good.

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[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

This is exactly the “popular => bad” mentality that needs to die. Good products are good—and perhaps more importantly, bad products are bad—irrespective of their popularity. Linux is a masterpiece as a result of millions of hours of thoughtful and rigorous engineering, not the absence of its wide adoption on desktop. Windows is a dumpster fire as a result of millions of hours of reckless code vomit, not its ubiquity on desktop. See also: the Android operating system you know and (if I had to guess) love.

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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Agreed. It's just the joke, as always.

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[-] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 120 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] SeekPie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago
[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 years ago

Given the size of Estonia, I'll assume that was the work of one single Linux supersoldier who spent the whole month entering homes at night and installing Linux on whatever computer they could find.

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[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Go India! duck yeah! Woohoo \o/

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[-] LeadEyes@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

I wonder what portion of that is steam decks.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me too. As one data point, I don't use mine to access the web. However, it did get me confident with Linux as a viable choice for my desktop today. I went on to install it dual boot on my main and rarely if ever open Windows. It's probably a couple months behind in updates.

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years ago

In the end I just uninstalled windows because every time I opened it, it tried installing all updates and I had to wait 20-30 mins to get to the desktop

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 17 points 2 years ago

And don't forget the ten different single app updaters because there's no centralized update system. There's just so much stuff running all the time.

[-] papabobolious@feddit.nu 9 points 2 years ago

Hey so I know you deleted the Edge shortcut from your desktop the last three times, but this time I think you'll really like it, so I added it back!

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[-] ARk@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago
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[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 39 points 2 years ago

That's honestly quite a lot, nice

[-] aCodeCrafter@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

As much as I hate to say it, I wonder how much of these are Chromebooks

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 66 points 2 years ago

Growth is being driven a lot by the Steam Deck.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago

This is mostly from browser stats though.

Sure, you can browse on it, but I wouldn't have thought it enough to skew the numbers in any meaningful way.

[-] sploosh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

School districts buy Chromebooks by the thousands. Steam Deck is definitely paving the way in terms of demonstrating a consumer use case for Linux, but I would be shocked if there are even 1/100th the number of them in the wild as there are Chromebooks.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 23 points 2 years ago

ChromeOS is listed in a separate category.

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[-] Peps@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

It looks like ChromeOS is reported separately in those stats

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 2 years ago
[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

It looks like Linux will be mainstream in India in the next decade. I'm excited since a small fraction of the incredible amount of users will become distro developers.

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[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I moved to Linux last year, but from a Mac so not sure how much I'm moving needles.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Not much especially if you set up the desktop environment to mimic Mac os. Unless you do pc gaming, then depending on your hardware you get a big boost in available titles.

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[-] kinther@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

I switched to Ubuntu 22.04 on 2023-12-31. I had used a bunch of other distros back in 2008-2012, then got tired of manually tweaking things constantly. Things have come a long way and there are way more options to make things work. I don't have to spend hours on the CLI or reboot frequently.

So yeah, I'm going to stick with Ubuntu for a bit, then switch to something else.

[-] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

These days, you probably won't need all that tweaking.

I'd recommend Linux Mint.

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[-] amzd@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago

The repo at the link doesn’t really explain where the data is from, does anyone know?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The URL saves 'statcounterdata' so maybe from https://gs.statcounter.com?

Which has Linux at just under 4% for Jan 2024, and if you include Chrome OS then it's over 5%. link

Statcounter provides free analytics by embedding their code in your site. And their stats come from aggregating all the data from all the sites that use their analytics.

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[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 17 points 2 years ago

I switched to Linux last year so I'm doing my part

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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

I'm trying my very best to love Linux but I'm having so much trouble with Mint.

I'm running a Mint vm on a proxmox to try it out and for some reason my back button and forward button on my mouse maps to the scroll wheel. The scroll wheel is mapped correctly. I installed Spice to improve performance and so far it's amazing, but the mouse is annoying.

If I run RDP, it works perfectly, but the lag is too annoying.

Does anyone here have suggestions? Thanks.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

If I were you I would install Mint on a second drive.

Pretty sure your issues aren't with Mint they're with the virtualization platform.

You can get a cheap $40 SSD and install the OS on that.

Be sure to unplug the windows drive before installing Mint to the other drive. Then plug the Win drive back in. Now you can use the bios boot menu to boot into either.

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago

Be sure to unplug the windows drive before installing Mint to the other drive.

Why would you do that? Totally unnecessary. When Windows is already installed any Linux installation respects it without issues. The problem is the other way around, if you install Linux first and then install Windows afterwards on a second partition/drive it nukes your Linux bootloader.

Especially in times of M.2 drives (which are often behind the GPU) you only annoy people by telling them to unplug their Windows drive first. And they might want to use a second partition on that drive if it's bigger.

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[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

I've run Mint in Virtual Box on Windows with no issues. Really though, the move from Windows to Mint is best done on bare metal.

[-] angrymouse@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Any OS is kinda garbage on VM. I tried to run windows in a VM on my linux, the performance is pure garbage, usbs are tricky and so on

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wow, I was just going to ask if it was 2% a couple years ago, then checked the link. That is a really fast increase.

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 39 points 2 years ago

"Unknown" goes from 3 to 6% in the same time period, so I think technically it's the year of the Unknown desktop. Sounds catchier, if you ask me.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago

Am I on Slashdot in 2004?

No shade. I respect my Linux brethren. I'm on MacOS, but CLI junkies should unite and drink beers. Or smoke trees. Or whatever. The point is that I love you all. But no Windows peeps.

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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Really curious about all those "unknown". Solid piece out of everybody.

[-] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 years ago

Year of the TempleOS Desktop

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[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

2023 was the year of the Linux desktop.

  1. Got Discord and Zoom off the store
  2. Zoom screen and webcam sharing just worked
  3. Was able to even switch Bluetooth profile through GUI
  4. Essentially any game that didn't use a kernel level spyware works
  5. Chromebook hardware in the $500 range is pretty good
  6. Must software is web based.

I recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Install once, update weekly or biweekly. (It's a rolling release, so it doesn't have major upgrades like Windows 10 to 11 does.) About a month ago I did an upgrade on my old laptop. Handled 2 years of updates flawlessly.

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