[HN Gopher] Linux Hits 4% on the Desktop
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       Linux Hits 4% on the Desktop
        
       Author : throwaway1194
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-03-02 22:07 UTC (53 minutes ago)
        
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       | throwaway1194 wrote:
       | +1% on Linux marketshare worldwide in less than 8 months.
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       | https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
        
         | nurtbo wrote:
         | 1 percentage point but >30% increase!
        
       | thsksbd wrote:
       | "There's dozens of us!"
       | 
       | I kid. I've been using Debian as my main OS since about 2012.
       | Once Steve Jobs signed Flash's death warrant, Linux as a desktop
       | became feasible.
       | 
       | Its bitter sweet though. Linux is feasible because everything is
       | on the web, which is worse than what we had before.
        
         | zvmaz wrote:
         | > Its bitter sweet though. Linux is feasible because everything
         | is on the web, which is worse than what we had before.
         | 
         | What do you mean?
        
           | oleganza wrote:
           | Late 90s argument against linux sounded like "we need to run
           | Office". Today i don't need spreadsheets that are not shared
           | in real time with my colleagues. So you use web version of
           | excel/googlesheets and it doesn't matter what OS is running
           | your webkit-based browser.
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           | Also all the "free software" is in someone else's server.
        
       | zvmaz wrote:
       | I can't imagine running another OS other than Linux on my
       | personal machine. You get a _sense_ of control and privacy you
       | won 't get from the main other OSes.
        
         | simonblack wrote:
         | Linux 23 years and counting. UNIX for the 10 years before that.
         | 
         | I looked at Windows around 1993. Couldn't believe how primitive
         | it was for a GUI.
        
         | SinePost wrote:
         | I can. Any of the free BSDs (of which FreeBSD is one of them).
        
       | nurtbo wrote:
       | Does a steam deck count as a Linux desktop?
        
         | firebaze wrote:
         | Does Windows count as a non-gaming os?
        
       | colesantiago wrote:
       | Hmmm. 4% is still single digits and very close to zero on the
       | desktop if we round it down.
       | 
       | Still a long way to go.
        
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