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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)

submitted 2 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That could actually be a reasonable view, considering Windows has fallen off since the late 90's or early 00's, depending on what version you draw the line on.

[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, it is pretty hard to keep increasing your market share when you get closer and closer to 100%.

But yes, 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Maybe Win7, but I never used it.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows.

Generally it's a sine wave: XP SP3 good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good-ish, 11... nevermind.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Windows is falling off because they missed the mobile boat.

Most people never needed a full computer. All they do is consume and a phone and iPad is more than enough for that.

The desktop market is shrinking and the steam deck is pumping Linux numbers in an increasingly smaller pond.

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

yeah that's the sad truth. I was watching a video yesterday about like "All creators should be on YouTube" because Instagram, Twitter, etc., will open your Patreon link logged-out in a WebView....

I'm the only one watching videos on a desktop I guess