It's the year of the Linux desktop

Exactly like the girls fantasized:

It's probably SteamDecks alone.

I'm as happy about this news as the next tech enthusiast, but bluntly, it's not a big shift. Going from ... What? 5% to 6%? That's great and all but it's hardly moving the needle.

If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that's as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that's both good enough and transparent enough that people don't need to think about it much.

Before we get Linux OEM PCs on store shelves, we need to figure out that last bit first.

That still hasn't happened yet. We can't even agree what window manager should be used, nevermind any of the dozen or so other critical services on the system...

The thing that makes Linux great is that anyone and everyone can, and does, make stuff for it. That's also the thing that's going to hold it back from being put on store shelves pre installed on prebuilt PCs.

While that is a good point (and an xkcd I didn't know), the stats say Linux also had the largest absolute growth, so it's not quite as misleading as you make it out to be

Yeah, I wish they'd made the second graph show percentage point difference instead of percentage growth.

TempleOS

SerenityOS is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core".
It's good enough to be proud of, while alienating normal people, not incidentally, like linux used to, but on purpose, like this sentence does, making it a great for elitists.

The real elites shall forever be the Plan9 group. There's dozens of users! Dozens!

We just start the distro wars.

I preordered a Jolla. Chasing that "0.6 % Other" high.

HaikuOS

Create ExLisperOS and you're good to go.

freedos, obviously

Its going to end up 1-2 freak self hoster's torrenting terrabytes of movies for the jellyfin servers instead of just streaming their porn, and thats why linux gets a marketshare.

/s

I wonder if the numbers would be higher if there wasn't so much crossover between Linux users and unwillingness to pay for stuff that can be gotten for free

I'm doing my part 🫡

I feel your pain.

Cries in Tennessee

Polyamorous in public. It's open and anyone can contribute.

"Femboy" or furry, obviously.

I use Arch btw.

Anime? Manga? Tentacle?

Whatever type it's probably esoteric and somehow involves the command line.

Personally, nothing on PornHub.

Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?

chromebooks during highschool geometry

Nah, most of the school equipment/networks are monitored/blocked to hell and back. I'm not saying they can't find loopholes, but they're severely hampered, and when they get caught, it's a big deal.

A lot of that chromeOS is people buying the cheapest hardware at Walmart and using it as their faptop.

Just like a lot of the Linux is probably steamdecks.

But nobody did...

I watch porn sometimes. Period. No need too add guilt, shame or anything negative too that. It is somethin people do and is part of how people live their sexuality and that's that.

The safe word is "Torvalds".

Pretty much everything other than TempleOS. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku OS, Redox OS, Sculpt OS etc.

BSD, Haiku and pretty much anything that hides or manipulates the user agent string.