Linux changed in 2024, but 2025 will be MUCH BIGGER
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Honestly there are only so many clickbait headlines a guy can take in a day. I’ve reached my quota. Can some good person or bot tl;dr this please?
Linux appears to largely be done with the transition to the modern tech stack (wayland/Pipewire) and can now focus on getting more features. Packaging hasn’t improved (flatpaks largely stagnated, snaps barely evolved and kept the same issues, so did app images and system packages. On the gaming front, while steamOS has gained users, market share is still somewhat anemic, and support for multiplayer games is now worse than before. Desktop usage did show some ok growth though and now has a solid 4%
We have higher market share 4%+. Thats the biggest one for me. We were at 3% earlier in the year.
He does bug me in his coverage in "problems" he says linux has in other videos, but he does research quite a it. So better than most. Like I love my steamdeck and linux support...
Thank you!
India has a 13.15% Linux Desktop market share! Go India! 🇮🇳
Doing my part 😊
Yet another year, yet another "this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop".
What would make Linux actually work out was if GNOME got their shit together instead of wasting time and resources on pointless stuff. Another big thing with Linux would be if someone could get some vendor like Lenovo to open all their ARM tablets, implement an UEFI like they should have from the start and provide basic drivers.
Linux is useless for the majority of regular users, at least for work, because you don't have xyz proprietary software, however it could work out well as a home machine for web surfing and simple documents. People would probably be happy to buy cheap ~200$ tablets from Lenovo and get a full desktop experience from those.
A standard boot system for Arm would have been awesome 10-20 years ago! I dreamed about that already back in 2005 when the OLPC idea was new, but when the netbooks finally came out, based on somewhat similar ideas, they were exclusively Intel!!!
I must admit that after having waited in vain for 20 years now, I no longer give a shit. I cannot fathom how Arm didn't create such a standard at least a decade ago?
Initial Netbooks with Linux were very popular, but when vendors switched to a deprecated version of Windows, that ran way worse in every way, popularity of Netbooks actually dropped for a while, and the entire concept was basically declared dead. Because they were next to unusable compared to the early Linux Netbooks.
Netbooks with Arm/Linux could have been HUGE!! But now the time has passed, because many use IOS or Android instead.
Well, the problem is… they did: https://developer.arm.com/Architectures/Unified%20Extensible%20Firmware%20Interface
But then came along the Pi guys that should’ve implemented an UEFI to push the market into that direction but never did.
The new Snapdragon X machines actually seem to have UEFIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Damzgq5Bg&t=978s&pp=2AHSB5ACAQ%3D%3D
But we need more, tablets with open boot and drivers are important.
