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Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn't know we already passed 4%.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (41 children)

Music and graphic art software is the only advantage I can find for MacOS over Linux at this point. I love the Apple silicon but I don't see that being a long term advantage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (37 children)

Stability and UI/UX are still lightyears ahead in Mac, and to some extent Windows. Don't get me wrong, they suck for lots of reasons, but I think Linux has a lot of catching up to do to be as usable as Mac/Windows for the ordinary user.

I think standardizing package formats, and more mature desktop managers and proprietary drivers will go a long way to fixing that though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (13 children)

What is your definition of stability lol

Windows crashes are standard... Linux are pretty rare. At least in my exp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, in my case stability refers to grub display loading at all :)

I installed Debian on my PC with an RTX 4090 and it just refuses to load the grub display on first boot (grub loads, but there's no DisplayPort signal). I was able to get it working by switching to the latest stable backports kernel and proprietary Nvidia drivers, but then it stopped working again and now I have to figure out how to fix it.

I don't mind this at all, and I'm even enjoying the troubleshooting process, but I think this would have been quite the headache for the average user!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is a headache... No idea of grub is either

Running 3000 series nvidis with popos drivers that were included zero issue.

I deff had issues with mint tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As I discovered, nvidia are infamous in the linux world for causing all sorts of weird issues. Things are getting a lot better now as they seem to be giving a lot more attention to the drivers in linux like they do for Windows. The open-source (Nouveau) drivers in linux seem to work well in many cases (maybe for 3000-series cards too?), but as you get to newer cards like the 4090, the proprietary linux drivers they provide are often needed. It's still huge progress!