That’s a huge increase.
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This is it, lads! We are in the Year of The Linux Desktop ™ x3!
Usual question behind this kind of stats: what are the sources? I’m tired of having to believe stuff that appears on the net just by faith.
India’s Linux market share is 13.8%. TF? When I want to talk about it to anyone, they ask wtf is Linux?
Brother they are 1.7B of those little dudes, your sample is negligible
In personal experience there has been a big rise of Linux on the server and more people being forced to get used to it. Docker is pushing this along even more now. We are seeing the continued rise in osx and improvements in the Linux desktop. Moving away from windows is becoming more acceptable now, even in corporations. This will continue!
It’ll be interesting to see if that number climbs once Windows 10 reaches EOL.
Year of the Linux desktop, is it?
I switched to Fedora Workstation as my daily use drive this year, so for me sure it is!
Every year will be year of Linux Desktop. keep the pie bigger… and bigger for anyone… Make GNU/Linux grow and Grow and GROW
A real “tortoise vs hare” situation it seems.
Pace of adoption also seems to be accelerating , from 2009 to about 2016 it went from 0.5 to 1,5 (+ 1 percent), from 2016 to 2023 it went from 1.5 to 3 (+1.5 percent), the adoption also seems to be at least doubling about every decade (which might indicate a “word to mouth” growth pattern.
Something to keep in mind with these graphics are that the scales are hugely different and more notably that the numbers do not add to 100%. Also the percent vs percentage point thing mentioned by @VonReposti@feddit.dk.
Steam and CodeWeavers drive this adoption at fast pace with proton and vulkan…
Other are some developer that switch fully from WSL2 to Linux (like me).
Other are finding refuge… welp…
Same here. WSL1 has shown me the ecosystem of Linux, so I decided to switch from Windows to Linux completely.
Well, but now WSL2 with GUI seems threaten a little about Linux DE in the end :/
WSL number is quite high with dev, and sometimes I also think WSL2 is convenient because I don’t need to have desktop linux to work with.
Well, if you can live with Windows’ UX.
Yeah. Sadly I can’t. But I also can’t live with… Gnome bar… I need native xfce with no CSD. But since gtk4 it’s harder 😔
Wtf is “unknown” that everybody used for 2 months then dropped?!?!
It was probably people not sharing user agnets.
Stats from this site are not nearly accurate. It is based on web browser user-agent usage from statistics they have.
Real number can be higher, because Linux users tend more than other OSes to native programs, because of better software management. And many privacy browsers change agent to most popular OS to resist fingerprinting.
Or it can be much lower, because Linux is used more in server space, so also in bots and scraping the web.
The most possible answer might be more boring though: this number is increasing because more people are installing Linux in old PCs and Laptops, either out of curiosity or because they want the machine to live more years.
Still, this might make people consider install Linux in their main machine too in the future (after they pass the learning curve).
I guess I’m not in the majority, but my reason for finally switching fully to linux after 20 years is that gaming finally Just Works (mostly) thanks to Wine and Valve. I’ve been gaming under Linux since Quake III, but always kept a windows install because lots of games ran poorly or not at all under linux.
Last year I finally switched to an AMD GPU, and all the games I’ve played since then worked either OOTB or required minimal effort to fix (I don’t play multiplayer games except for Overwatch, which also runs fine). I haven’t booted my windows install in like 6 months, soon I’ll wipe it to make some room for more linux games.
i think its been bouncing around there 3% or so for a while though
No, it was close to reaching 3%. Went to 2.91, now it’s beyond that landmark and even gained .08% extra.
It’s excellent news because companies are less likely to ignore the market share of Linux.
well that sounds like good news
