Just wait for Windows 10's service life to run out. That's when I'm switching full time
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
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it's not gonna decrease from there. linux only needs some product to push usage percentage, like steam deck. it's key to the mass adoption but i also don't care that much about percentage
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
First hitting over 4% in February, their March data is now in showing not just staying above 4% but rising a little once again showing the trend is clear that Linux use is rising.
A number that is getting steadily harder for developers of all kinds to ignore.
It terms of overall percentage, it's still relatively small but when you think about how many people that actually is, it's a lot.
For those thinking it may be due to Steam Deck with SteamOS, it's unlikely, at least not directly.
StatCounter gather their info from web traffic across over 1.5 million sites globally.
There's going to be various other bigger factors at play here though, like Linux nowadays actually being properly good on the desktop.
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I've driven my laptop for years on Linux, previously mint and recently fedora KDE and given Microsoft's recent moves 10 Will be my last windows os on my desktop and I'm considering moving before support ends
Fuck yeah it's the year of the Linux desktop baby!!!!!
Year of the linux on 3! 1! 2! 3!
Good. While the number's been generally trending upwards it's been unsteady and there have been plenty of months where it went down. If it went back below 4% this month we would have had endless posts about how the earlier milestone was a fluke.
Hopefully when the next backslide does happen (and it will) it'll stay above 4%.