Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

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

  • psvrh@lemmy.caEnglish
    40·
    5 months ago

    How much of this is decline at the expense of Windows 11, due to Steam lowering barriers to entry, fatigue with Windows’ hard selling, and/or extending the useful like of hardware that W11 abandoned.

    • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      Copilot / Recall was the last straw for me. My only relationship with Microsoft for the last 10 years has been, “how much more of Microsoft’s sh*t am I willing to put up with?”

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      I 100% put money on the fact that linuxes surge in popularity and usability is 100% because Valve, a multi-billion dollar company, stepped in and started dragging it forward in ways that the fractuous nature of the community never could.

      Windows 11 being a spytastic invasive dogpile was just extra fuel on the fire.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Little bit of everything I think. I personally have been getting tired of Microsoft pulling their shit, but without Valve making compatibility so simple for their launcher it would make it a much harder sell.

    • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      The fuckery Microsoft has been doing with trying to outright trick people into signing in to the OS with a Microsoft account and using things like OneDrive combined with just how good Proton has gotten pushed me to make the switch full time a year or so ago for my personal usage.