What's with the big spike in "unknown" at the same time as Windows market share going down a bunch?
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I remember once reading here that there was a bug that made Windows show up as "unknown"
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If I wasn't a noob gamer I'd have no use for Windows. Unfortunately I'm too dumb to figure out how to make games work, even on Mint.
It takes less than you think. It's not always windows-easy but a little troubleshooting and googling is usually all it takes. The biggest sticking point is anti-cheat, if the kind of games you like require it.
Wine, lutris and steam are your best friends on linux in terms of gaming
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Curious, but good news. Hopefully it doesn't reverse. We could do with less macs and windows machines.
Do you all think that if the market share gets high enough we'll see ports of professional software like autocad or adobe?
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The revolution is coming!
For me, the Year of Linux on the Desktop was 2021. There's literally only one computer in the house running Windows anymore, and that's simply to run some of the pro-level software I use for gig work (and so I'll never be entirely rid of it).
Proton's improvements were a big step in transitioning my PC gaming to Linux. There are still a lot of games that won't run on Linux, but... there are so many that do, so I don't feel like I'm missing out.
That is very little and propably due to steam deck.
Which is not a desktop.
That looks like a pretty solid base before microsoft attempts to decommission millions of computers that have many years of useful life left. I wish I could say that's great for me, but more of that hardware is going to end up in local landfills than resold.
At that rate market share will double after about four years. Since it took a hell of a lot more than four years to get to this point then that means that growth is accelerating.
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I don't really want Linux to become the dominant OS. I want Microsoft to release Windows under a free software license. Windows is actually not that bad an OS from a purely technical standpoint.
Of course this won't happen. The day they release it, world will collapse because of the newly discovered vulnerabilities and stuff. Security over obscurity is major player in securities of closed source programs.
Is this actually Linux gaining any significant new mindshare, or is it just that the use of desktops is in relative decline, and the holdouts are going to be the more linux-inclined?
Are steam decks included in this because Im pretty sure valve has sold a LOT of them.
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