Linux marketshare is now big enough to fit tux inside the chart! We did it!
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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It's the year of the Linux desktop
It's funny to think there are already teenagers born in a year of the Linux desktop
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unfortunately this is mostly an instance of https://xkcd.com/1102/
It's probably SteamDecks alone.
I'm as happy about this news as the next tech enthusiast, but bluntly, it's not a big shift. Going from ... What? 5% to 6%? That's great and all but it's hardly moving the needle.
If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that's as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that's both good enough and transparent enough that people don't need to think about it much.
Before we get Linux OEM PCs on store shelves, we need to figure out that last bit first.
That still hasn't happened yet. We can't even agree what window manager should be used, nevermind any of the dozen or so other critical services on the system...
The thing that makes Linux great is that anyone and everyone can, and does, make stuff for it. That's also the thing that's going to hold it back from being put on store shelves pre installed on prebuilt PCs.
What? 5% to 6%? That’s great and all but it’s hardly moving the needle.
It's huge because the people who do the tech support in the families are moving.
My elderly, former programmer father is one. Too bad it took him 30 years after first trying but he is up and running now for about three months 😁️ Now to get him off the Apple phone and into an alt android OS....
Now to get him off the Apple phone and into an alt android OS....
But, why? I can understand for you and I, but does a 50-60yo, need to shift from a platform they're comfortable with and can afford, just because their nerdy kid doesn't find it cool?
You're a little off on our ages, but your point still stands 🙂 What is behind that statement is me seeing him talk about these things for so long. He was messing with OS/2 and some Linux stuff before Windows came out, but completely quit after about 1993. He would, however, talk about it.
He was the first of us to get a smartphone (Apple) and did a lot of tinkering with it then, but quit. I personally have been using Linux OSes for 20 years and even gave an old desktop of mine to fiddle with 10 years ago, which he loved!
He wants to do this stuff but has trouble starting his own projects. He has spent time with my phone, my computers, etc. If I lived closer this would be a great way to spend time together since we don't have a whole lot in common.
The reality is he is the nerdy kid who learned programming on punch cards and switched to that field in the 60s as soon as he learned what a computer was. He has always wanted to do "gadgety" things. He does have some dispensable income. I have enjoyed hearing him talk about this new nettop and the shenanigans he gets into with it! So much better than discussing the weather.
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If you look at the commercially successful variants of Linux (ChromeOS and Android), you'll see that taking away freedom/choice was the first thing they did.
And ultimately, if you are targeting the mass market, that's almost required.
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Thank you to all the linux gooners bumping these numbers up
I wonder if the numbers would be higher if there wasn't so much crossover between Linux users and unwillingness to pay for stuff that can be gotten for free
Its going to end up 1-2 freak self hoster's torrenting terrabytes of movies for the jellyfin servers instead of just streaming their porn, and thats why linux gets a marketshare.
/s
Can you not talk about my porn habits in public? Thanks.
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It's better to stay away from windows if you're having a wank.
Brilliant
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Now that Linux is mainstream where do we move to feel elitist? DragonFly BSD? Redox OS?
TempleOS
SerenityOS is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core".
It's good enough to be proud of, while alienating normal people, not incidentally, like linux used to, but on purpose, like this sentence does, making it a great for elitists.
One could alternatively run GNU hurd, then you also get Debian but also cachè
Perfect. Installing now.
Next year will be SerenityOS desktop year!
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PornHub is a treasure trove for... data science
Lots of wankers using Linux, eh?
People probably don’t want to watch it with their Microsoft employee.
Would love to see what kind of porn Linux users watch compared to others.
Anime? Manga? Tentacle?
Whatever type it's probably esoteric and somehow involves the command line.
Whatever kink, but with consent not sudo.
sudo is asking for permission. It's su that is straight up pillaging.
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Year of the Linux gooning
Good job gooners.
Frustrating that you can't even get to the pornhub press pages and look at the year in review without hopping on VPN if you're in a restricted area. I feel like Cherie Deville with her PSA on the block page might technically be the most viewed model on there now.
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I love when they give us this hard data. You can take this proof and shove it down hater's throats and perhaps even in other parts of their body.
I'm doing my part!
Heh, my "part"
ChromeOS always disturbs me. Is there a 2.4% out there casually watching porn on side with their chromebooks during highschool geometry?
And why they switching to linux?
Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?
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