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Scoffs derisively at the new popular thing and switches to BSD...

I just transitioned to Linux. Fully removed windows.

I'm doing my part!

Proton is a big deal for the change. Think back 5 years ago and switching to Linux was much less approachable because you needed to be an enthusiast to get your games running. Nowadays, you just click download on the Linux Steam client and >90% of the time, it'll just work.

I'm doing my part! Switched to Linux earlier this year because Microsoft started showing ads in the start menu. I tried Nobara but ran into some glitches that I didn't want to troubleshoot so I switched to Bazzite. So far so good.

I hopped on the Linux train when Microsoft began pushing hard for AI integration and Microsoft accounts. I fucking hate AI and I don't need some corpo cunt looking over my shoulder and taking notes while I use my computer.

I made the switch recently for probably the strangest reason.

I’ve been running win 11 for over a year using a shell tool that allowed me to move my task bar to the top of the screen and some other win 10 functionality.

However win 11 removed the ability to move the task bar and my shell program lost most of its functionality. After that I was done.

I’ve Linux off and on since 2002ish so it’s not scary to me and I’m pretty happy with Arch and KDE right now. Still the occasional crash that appears to happen sometimes when watching YouTube.

The journey of Linux has been one of slow but steady progress, accelerating in recent years. It took eight years to go from 1% to 2% (by April 2021), then just 2.2 years to reach 3% (June 2023), and a mere 0.7 years to hit 4% (February 2024). Now, here we are, at over 5% in the USA! This exponential growth suggests that we're on a promising upward trend.

The article was written this month, so it's conveniently ignoring the fact that the rise from 4% to 5% took 18 months. That's actually a huge slowdown in uptake, not an acceleration.

But I'm glad it's at 5%, even if it's only in the US. Now let's get there globally, and keep it going...

Mind you, the usage on the desktop, as the article says, is probably actually a significant bit higher than 5%, thanks to Unknown, and if you include ChromeOS, which personally it should be IMO.

Thank you Pewdiepie!!

I use arch btw

I've been using Linux since 2006, and been gaming on it exclusively since maybe 2018? Seen reports it's even kicking Win 11's ass now performance-wise. Yall are just mean.

As pointed out on hackernews, this is likely attributed to (a) decrease in desktop usage by non-linux-users, and (b) the gaming hardware industry embracing linux (steam deck etc.)

inb4 Linux users sweepingly get declared as criminals for some flimsy reason. There was some news of Facebook filtering out Linux content because it seemed harmful to them.

Every year Linux fans:

👐 It's happening! 👐

Just switched last month and I love it so far (:

Wow, that's excluding Chrome OS, which has 2.71% on it's own. So you could say Linux is at over 7%, but glad they split it so we know.

I put Ubuntu on my year old Windows laptop and to my surprise, everything is just better. I mean better than Windows AND better than Linux ever was before when I used it previously. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing some major manufacturers shipping PCs with Ubuntu pre-loaded in the coming years.

Just made the full switch meself this past week!

I think the fastest way for Linux to spread is for there to be a cheap gross dirty disgusting commercial version pushed at bestbuy/walmart...etc where people can become familiar enough with it to switch to other distros and out still feel familiar.

If it was simple and easy to install and play games on Linux as is on Windows, I would have switched over a decade ago.

Hopefully this surge in users make people want to develop for it a lot more and break more walls for others who are interested.

Still far too low, considering that the US is now a police state.

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At some point companies will be forced to accept that they're losing out on revenue by not releasing a linux version of their software.

I'm not in the US, but here in the UK I made the switch too.

I went from Windows PC + Windows laptop ~2 years ago to now having a Linux PC (ZorinOS), Samsung tablet and a home server running Proxmox with an Ubuntu VM for Docker.

Never been happier with my setup. The grass truly is greener over here.

Woooo! Year of the linux desktop baby!!

• pumps fist in air*

I will mainly switch to Linux whenever I feel ready for the headache of setting it up for the first time too. Already got another M.2 SSD to run it alongside my existing Win 10 for anything that doesn't run on Linux.

Finally, the year of Desktop Linux. Twenty years after we were promised. And it's still a pittence, but I'll take it.

I'm on a Mac, only use Linux for server stuff, but the more people we can get off Windows, the better. Let's go!