And most young people don’t have their own computers growing up anymore, it’s all phones and tablets and in the USA apple has won that race.
I agree full on that. Even if Linux ends up getting more marketshare on PC, PC as a whole seems to be getting less and less popular. There are people I know that dont have a PC at the house because their phones can do everything. And I do mean everything. Its wild to me thats the case, cause I use my laptop/desktop 90% of the time im online...but if an app can do it and you have less income, its a viable alternative.
Worldwide, theres more android devices regularly used than Windows (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/). And in the US, Windows has been going down in the graphs like crazy: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states-of-america/#monthly-200901-202512
Just this year windows has been stable at 30-35% but thats nothing compared to what they were a decade ago. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states-of-america/#monthly-202501-202512
With the RAM/SSD/compute shortage happening, I can see people:
- Using their existing win 10 machines for WAAAY longer than is good. 2 Switching over to iOS/MAC (cause if its expensive, might as well get something good)
- More and more Android/small linux devices gain traction in niche markets (like retro handhelds is almost exclusively linux)
- Us nerds using Linux with our old machines raging against the system slowly gaining market-share.