▲ 769 ▼ The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm) submitted 1 year ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev 187 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SourGumGum@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (5 children) Is this the century of Linux? permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (4 children) That could actually be a reasonable view, considering Windows has fallen off since the late 90's or early 00's, depending on what version you draw the line on. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) To be fair, it is pretty hard to keep increasing your market share when you get closer and closer to 100%. But yes, 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Maybe Win7, but I never used it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Generally it's a sine wave: XP SP3 good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good-ish, 11... nevermind. permalink fedilink source parent [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Windows is falling off because they missed the mobile boat. Most people never needed a full computer. All they do is consume and a phone and iPad is more than enough for that. The desktop market is shrinking and the steam deck is pumping Linux numbers in an increasingly smaller pond. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago yeah that's the sad truth. I was watching a video yesterday about like "All creators should be on YouTube" because Instagram, Twitter, etc., will open your Patreon link logged-out in a WebView.... I'm the only one watching videos on a desktop I guess permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (4 children) That could actually be a reasonable view, considering Windows has fallen off since the late 90's or early 00's, depending on what version you draw the line on. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) To be fair, it is pretty hard to keep increasing your market share when you get closer and closer to 100%. But yes, 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Maybe Win7, but I never used it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Generally it's a sine wave: XP SP3 good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good-ish, 11... nevermind. permalink fedilink source parent [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Windows is falling off because they missed the mobile boat. Most people never needed a full computer. All they do is consume and a phone and iPad is more than enough for that. The desktop market is shrinking and the steam deck is pumping Linux numbers in an increasingly smaller pond. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago yeah that's the sad truth. I was watching a video yesterday about like "All creators should be on YouTube" because Instagram, Twitter, etc., will open your Patreon link logged-out in a WebView.... I'm the only one watching videos on a desktop I guess permalink fedilink source parent
[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) To be fair, it is pretty hard to keep increasing your market share when you get closer and closer to 100%. But yes, 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Maybe Win7, but I never used it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Generally it's a sine wave: XP SP3 good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good-ish, 11... nevermind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Generally it's a sine wave: XP SP3 good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good-ish, 11... nevermind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Windows is falling off because they missed the mobile boat. Most people never needed a full computer. All they do is consume and a phone and iPad is more than enough for that. The desktop market is shrinking and the steam deck is pumping Linux numbers in an increasingly smaller pond. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago yeah that's the sad truth. I was watching a video yesterday about like "All creators should be on YouTube" because Instagram, Twitter, etc., will open your Patreon link logged-out in a WebView.... I'm the only one watching videos on a desktop I guess permalink fedilink source parent
[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago yeah that's the sad truth. I was watching a video yesterday about like "All creators should be on YouTube" because Instagram, Twitter, etc., will open your Patreon link logged-out in a WebView.... I'm the only one watching videos on a desktop I guess permalink fedilink source parent