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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Linux Desktop Market share reaches 3.08% (gs.statcounter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That's a huge increase.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most possible answer might be more boring though: this number is increasing because more people are installing Linux in old PCs and Laptops, either out of curiosity or because they want the machine to live more years.

Still, this might make people consider install Linux in their main machine too in the future (after they pass the learning curve).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess I'm not in the majority, but my reason for finally switching fully to linux after 20 years is that gaming finally Just Works (mostly) thanks to Wine and Valve. I've been gaming under Linux since Quake III, but always kept a windows install because lots of games ran poorly or not at all under linux.

Last year I finally switched to an AMD GPU, and all the games I've played since then worked either OOTB or required minimal effort to fix (I don't play multiplayer games except for Overwatch, which also runs fine). I haven't booted my windows install in like 6 months, soon I'll wipe it to make some room for more linux games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@loutr
This ! Wiped my windows install last month, so far so good. Still have some glitches in kde/steam/proton where the window blinks like crazy.

Also agree with previous post: in my early days of IT, my school laptop (thinkpad t42p) was starting to age, and debian gave it a seco d life, out of the box. I was "forced" to use it, but never regretted it, except when at thw time support for xls, doc wasnt so good, not to mention gaming
@tricoro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also switched because gaming just started to work. Gave Linux a try every 6-12 months for like almost a century but both the desktop and gaming performance always were subpar.

Until 3 years ago when I once again tested Linux and both GNOME and KDE were super snappy to use, gaming worked mostly out of the box via Proton and all the applications I need for work, worked on Linux or had an even better alternative.

Stuck with dual booting for one more year because I couldn't get VR to work properly. Now I'm 100% on Linux since 2 years.

The speed at which things have improved in those 3 years is amazing. Things went from "needs some tinkering" to "just install it". Performance went from mediocre to blazing fast. Software support went from "need to compile from source" to "download the AppImage/Flatpak".