Year of the Linux desktop, is it?
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Every year will be year of Linux Desktop. keep the pie bigger.. and bigger for anyone... Make GNU/Linux grow and Grow and GROW
I switched to Fedora Workstation as my daily use drive this year, so for me sure it is!
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.
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.
The increase is not 1 and 1.5 percent but 1 and 1.5 percentage points
The increase is not 1 and 1.5 percent but 1 and 1.5 percentage points
tbh i don't really see the point in mentioning this.
Because original is incorrect. For the first increase 0.5% to 1.5% is an increase of 200% while the increase in percentage points is 1. The reason it's important is that it can skew the readability of the statistics to a degree where the numbers at best are confusing and at worst are misleading. In your case you accidentally understated the significance of the increase.
This is it, lads! We are in the Year of The Linux Desktop (tm) x3!
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
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.
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And ChromeOS is even more popular.
It'll be interesting to see if that number climbs once Windows 10 reaches EOL.
Win 10 IOT Enterprise LTSC will be my last Windows. I'm fairly sure Linux will be significantly greater in 2032, so I can avoid this spyware trash. Unfortunately my area of expertise is C#/.NET, so I'm stuck with this trash at work when I will be a working citizen.
.NET 5 and 6 are cross platform, so there is a Linux version. Unfortunately there is no Visual Studio for Linux (yet), only for MacOS.
Yeah luckily some people use C#/.NET on Linux with VS Code or Rider usually, it's just VS Studio is de facto standard in companies,
It doesn't say how they measure it. Some browsers identify as using Windows. Many people also use multiboot with Windows. Having Windows preinstalled also doesn't mean you're using it.