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    [–] aCodeCrafter@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    As much as I hate to say it, I wonder how much of these are Chromebooks

    [–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 69 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Growth is being driven a lot by the Steam Deck.

    [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 9 months ago

    This is mostly from browser stats though.

    Sure, you can browse on it, but I wouldn't have thought it enough to skew the numbers in any meaningful way.

    [–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

    Time to Sort the Steam Deck out like ChromeOS, then the Linux market goes back to 2%?

    Right? RIGHT?

    [–] sploosh@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    School districts buy Chromebooks by the thousands. Steam Deck is definitely paving the way in terms of demonstrating a consumer use case for Linux, but I would be shocked if there are even 1/100th the number of them in the wild as there are Chromebooks.

    [–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 25 points 9 months ago

    ChromeOS is listed in a separate category.

    [–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I have a deck, a few old laptops that have all gone Linux now, and a windows desktop for gaming. The deck being so good, and Windows 11 being so bad, has nearly convinced me to try Linux on the actual desktop.

    I think there are still a few games and applications (I'm primarily a C# dev for work) that I "need" Windows for but the case for dropping as much MS from my life as possible has never been stronger.

    [–] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

    I do C# dev for work also but use Linux. You'll have to use Rider for Visual Studio and Datagrip for Sql Server Management Studio. Only drawback I have is that Edit and Continue only works on dotnet > 8.0.

    You might need to do a tiny bit of extra support for the launchsettings.json since you'll need to launch with kestrel server instead of IIS Express.

    Legacy dotnet will need an old Ubuntu/Whatever so some docker knowledge may be required since MS didn't release a snap/flatpak of dotnet yet. 🖕

    I use Linux for gaming and dev with a highly customized KDE+bash setup and I love it. :)

    [–] Mo5560@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

    I can't speak for everyone but I used to say "I can't drop windows because I need XYZ programs all the time".

    Well turns out I don't, and turns out it's surprisingly easy to tell my employer (well my professor really, I am a PhD student) "Sorry I can't run that program, I don't have windows". If they don't accept it, they can supply me with a windows PC.

    [–] Peps@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

    It looks like ChromeOS is reported separately in those stats

    [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)
    [–] olafurp@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

    It looks like Linux will be mainstream in India in the next decade. I'm excited since a small fraction of the incredible amount of users will become distro developers.

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

    Sadly there aren't even Indian manufacturers with linux preinstalled. I've heard of starlabs, slimbook, tuxedo, system76 etc. only to find out that most doesn't ship to india and are not availiable in the stores like flipkart, amazon and local stores, where most of people computers. Still, still India is at 15% now and what if market already has linux preinstalled systems!

    [–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

    Schools LOVE chromebooks