Linux marketshare is now big enough to fit tux inside the chart! We did it!
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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It's the year of the Linux desktop
It's funny to think there are already teenagers born in a year of the Linux desktop
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Thank you to all the linux gooners bumping these numbers up
Its going to end up 1-2 freak self hoster's torrenting terrabytes of movies for the jellyfin servers instead of just streaming their porn, and thats why linux gets a marketshare.
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Can you not talk about my porn habits in public? Thanks.
It's better to stay away from windows if you're having a wank.
Brilliant
unfortunately this is mostly an instance of https://xkcd.com/1102/
It's probably SteamDecks alone.
I'm as happy about this news as the next tech enthusiast, but bluntly, it's not a big shift. Going from ... What? 5% to 6%? That's great and all but it's hardly moving the needle.
If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that's as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that's both good enough and transparent enough that people don't need to think about it much.
Before we get Linux OEM PCs on store shelves, we need to figure out that last bit first.
That still hasn't happened yet. We can't even agree what window manager should be used, nevermind any of the dozen or so other critical services on the system...
The thing that makes Linux great is that anyone and everyone can, and does, make stuff for it. That's also the thing that's going to hold it back from being put on store shelves pre installed on prebuilt PCs.
What? 5% to 6%? That’s great and all but it’s hardly moving the needle.
It's huge because the people who do the tech support in the families are moving.
My elderly, former programmer father is one. Too bad it took him 30 years after first trying but he is up and running now for about three months 😁️ Now to get him off the Apple phone and into an alt android OS....
If you look at the commercially successful variants of Linux (ChromeOS and Android), you'll see that taking away freedom/choice was the first thing they did.
And ultimately, if you are targeting the mass market, that's almost required.
ChromeOS isn't successful.
Frustrating that you can't even get to the pornhub press pages and look at the year in review without hopping on VPN if you're in a restricted area. I feel like Cherie Deville with her PSA on the block page might technically be the most viewed model on there now.
I feel your pain.
Cries in Tennessee
Now that Linux is mainstream where do we move to feel elitist? DragonFly BSD? Redox OS?
SerenityOS is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core".
It's good enough to be proud of, while alienating normal people, not incidentally, like linux used to, but on purpose, like this sentence does, making it a great for elitists.
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TempleOS
Create ExLisperOS and you're good to go.
Good job gooners.
ChromeOS always disturbs me. Is there a 2.4% out there casually watching porn on side with their chromebooks during highschool geometry?
And why they switching to linux?
Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?
Also probably some folks who bought a Chromebook in bulk from a school for pennies on the dollar.
That's the winning hypothesis, dumpster diving gooners.
chromebooks during highschool geometry
Nah, most of the school equipment/networks are monitored/blocked to hell and back. I'm not saying they can't find loopholes, but they're severely hampered, and when they get caught, it's a big deal.
A lot of that chromeOS is people buying the cheapest hardware at Walmart and using it as their faptop.
Just like a lot of the Linux is probably steamdecks.
Lots of wankers using Linux, eh?
MacOS getting a little side action, too.
I'm gonna fire up haiku and boost that other percentage
Linux usafe has surely grown, but I think a laege percentage of that are AI crawlers and shit like that.
I want SteamOS to turn into a general purpose OS so I can shitcan Windows for good!
There are already quite a few immutable distros you could use today like Bazzite or Fedora Atomic. The main advantage of SteamOS is that it's tailor made for specific hardware, an advantage it would automatically lose as a general purpose OS.
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Inadvertently contributed to this statistic lol
The Philippines has been a lot in the news lately, did not expect them to be an inspiration for the Linux world as well.
This must somehow be related to the VPN vendors, right? Or perhaps even remote desktops?
Nah, I was just feeling extra lonely this year and created some extra traffic.
Genuine curiosity from someone not deeply familiar with the details - what sort of operating systems fall under "Other" for desktops?
Pretty much everything other than TempleOS. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku OS, Redox OS, Sculpt OS etc.
Imagine TempleOS for PH :) I'm not saying I don't think it happens ... but the irony.
Well, technically it's not possible since OS doesn't have network connection. At least unless someone learns C† and implements network connection into it. If Terry said it would be complicated, it's probably a hard task. :)
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