[nrdxp]

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[mtmail]

Over 70% use Windows. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

[snvzz]

What happened to Linux these last 4 years?

It had stagnated at 1.5%-ish for a good decade.

But as of four years ago, it started to go up, higher than ever before, reaching 2% in 2021 and 4% this year.

Is the YoLD finally nigh?

[flohofwoe]

And in some "niches" like PC gaming it's 97% (per latest Steam hardware survey).

[Narretz]

Which Linux (for Desktop) though? The fragmentation is still hurting Linux big time.

[vitro]

Mint / Mate works for me.

[snvzz]

Arch Linux with Plasma 6.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Debian with kde or xfce

[azangru]

> It's not the early 2000s, Linux is fine.

It's not the early 2000s; and you still can't just walk into a store and test-drive and buy a laptop with linux on it.

[jajko]

Its not fine, and similar statements make situation much worse, since some actually believe it and then get bad disappointment and never look back at the choice

[Propelloni]

Well, this depends on your point of view. GNU/Linux has been very fine for more than a decade now, but it obviously is not a MS Windows clone. Not because it is less capable -- quite to the contrary -- but because it is less opinionated how things should be.

Now I could go into a rant about tradeoffs and choices and how freedom is hard and so on, but I don't feel like it.

[jcfrei]

"Linux"? You mean the thousands of different operating systems, each with their own GUI, package manager and often incompatible software? Never running out of the box - because of some weird bug or lack of support for the specific hardware you happen to have? If you run some headless server it's fine but not for desktop computing.