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Here's why Linux market share isn't going to skyrocket anytime soon (thelibre.news)

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You've heard the "prophecy": next year is going to be the year of the Linux desktop, right? Linux is no longer the niche hobby of bearded sysadmins and free software evangelists that it was a decade ago! Modern distributions like Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, and Linux Mint are sleek, accessible, and — dare I say it — mainstream-adjacent.

Linux is ready for professional work, including video editing, and it even manages to maintain a slight market share advantage over macOS among gamers, according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

However, it's not ready to dethrone Windows. At least, not yet!

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

However, it's not ready to dethrone Windows

Is this how we define "the year or the Linux desktop"? The year when the market share is larger than Windows? That's setting the bar a bit high, no?

For me, the year or the Linux desktop was 2007 or so. That's when I started using it instead of Windows. 🤷‍♂️