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I agree full on that. Even if Linux ends up getting more marketshare on PC, PC as a whole seems to be getting less and less popular. There are people I know that dont have a PC at the house because their phones can do everything. And I do mean everything. Its wild to me thats the case, cause I use my laptop/desktop 90% of the time im online...but if an app can do it and you have less income, its a viable alternative.
Worldwide, theres more android devices regularly used than Windows (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/). And in the US, Windows has been going down in the graphs like crazy: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states-of-america/#monthly-200901-202512
Just this year windows has been stable at 30-35% but thats nothing compared to what they were a decade ago. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states-of-america/#monthly-202501-202512
With the RAM/SSD/compute shortage happening, I can see people:
If people can function only with a phone, there's a LOT they aren't doing.
I use my phone constantly, but trying to get even a rooted Android phone to replace my PC's? Yea, no.
I'm not doing spreadsheet stuff only on my phone, or documents, or page layout, etc.
That younger folks are heavily mobile centric is a result of pressure by Google/MS, etc to get them used to it. When they're used to the limitations of mobile it'll be easier to limit PCs in the same ways.
And business, yea, no, mobile isn't replacing computers. They're great adjuncts, but even my laptop screen is sometimes too small - and I'm not someone that needs a large screen although time.
I agree! Its just a trend I was pointing out. God spreadsheets would be a pain and a half on mobile. Yuck!
At work we did have an app take over a workflow. Thats usually what I see at work. A slow trend towards app based workflows, which isnt necessarily a bad thing...as long as the phones are company phones.
Yeah as soon as you try to get to the advanced level of any task then mobile sputters out.
I'm making a personal spreadsheet on my phone, and as soon as i want to do anything even slightly advanced it turns out that that feature either doesn't exist in the app or is extremely undiscoverable.
Similarly for video and audio editing, you can really do a lot of it on mobile, but as soon as you want to do advanced things then the features either don't exist or are much slower and harder to accomplish on mobile
I swear the majority of us nerds using Linux have pretty new and powerful machines - sadly that hasn't ever been my case, though, but in online forums, Lemmy, Reddit, and what have you it feels like people interacting have pretty cool hardware.
Its a half joke lol. Linux has an interesting history of both working on cutting edge setups and old stuff collecting dust. We are an eclectic bunch!
I have two ends of that spectrum:
2010 IOmega arm board network drive, loaded with headless Debian for samba, minidlna, and 256MB RAM.
And 2024 laptop with 32GB RAM and Nvidia RTX card for runing Tumbkeweed for gaming.
Both run very well
"Everything" that they do. Only because they don't know how efficient browsing with 100 tabs can be.
I am not joking. Comparing products online can't be efficient with only five tabs.