Linux Desktop Market share reaches 3.08%

2023 year of Linux desktop!!1

I technically started with Steam Deck and finally took the plunge of partitioning my daily driver to install Linux Mint back a few weeks ago.

No regrets....

I'm a developer (web app predominantly ) and find I can use it for about 80% - 85% of my daily workflow. Things I miss and can't substitute are mainly around image editing / vector editing where GIMP and InkScape are just not there for the way I work.

Loving my time with it and would highly recommend anyone on the fence take the dive and give Mint a go. It's incredibly familiar the moment you boot it :)

And we're all on Lemmy!

Wow, that's amazing! I assume this doesn't really count Steam Deck because usually these stats are from website hits and whatnot.

I remember when we were floundering around 0.50-0.75% or so and 1% seemed unlikely. And now we're where macOS was some time ago. That's pretty awesome!

@fugepe And has 100% of the market share in high performance computing...definitely the top500 are all linuxes. https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/ (select os familes to get the os used)

That's nice. Hopefully it getting more notorious means that HW companies will support it better. But, at the same time, if this is just from the Steam Deck, then, kinda fugged

I wonder what the big drop in Windows and big rise in Unknown for awhile was

This is satisfying great news!

does this count things such as steamOS & ChromeOS?

When Linux gaming reaches 100 percent parity with windows, I'll probably switch. Until then I can't really justify it for my home PC. Give it 5 years or so, I've heard good things about... proton, i think it was called?

Yeah there's 3% reported, but what do you think that 3% unknown is? Am I supposed to believe it's all Windows users spoofing their user agent?