Didn’t we also just break 3% last year, or am I mistaken? Either way, awesome news for the FOSS community.
Yep and it seems to line up with the rise of the Steam Deck and all the discussion around how viable gaming on Linux is these days. I think there were/are a LOT of people that only stick with Windows due to gaming. Hopefully as gaming support continues to improve on Linux more of those people will make the switch.
I don’t even think much when running games anymore. Even DRM-free games I get from Gog I can just click on and run with Wine most of the time. It’s so awesome.
Sometimes games that won’t work on 10/11 work happily on wine/proton. Fun times.
Same.
I only have a handful of games I cant play, and thats due entirely to their shitty choice of DRM… and thats not a big detriment cause that obscene DRM would have kept me away on Windows, anyway.
There’s that and Heroic is doing some excellent work implementing proton and steams stuff into GOG games!
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And firefox has 3%. Its more unpopular to use firefox rather than linux lol
On desktop it is 7%. On desktop in Europe it is 10%. On desktop in Finland it is 15%.
For Linux, it seems like Asia is pumping the numbers with 5.8%. Linux use in Finland is 3.25%. Norway is 12.3%
It’s interesting that Asia is boosting Linux numbers when the Valve hardware survey showed the opposite. The numbers were recently updated to include China and it caused every OS to lose ground to Win10.
China windows is probably somehow more than 100 percent pirated and comes with additional spying and maybe crypto mining in the background.
This blows my mind. I still daily drive Firefox on all 3 of my computers and my phone. I don’t get the hate, and I feel it’s the right thing to support in this monopoly market where the biggest browser is owned by an ad company.
You have to understand, this late into the slow motion apocalypse the writers were starting to get eaten by hellhounds and so there is a lot of rushed writing/plot arcs that just doesn’t much sense when you look too closely because it isn’t like the lizard people were going to reduce the apocalypse guild writers quota just because some of them (most of them) had been eaten by hellhounds, the lizard people SENT the hellhounds so that would have just made the lizard people look incompetent.
I mean, it’s the same old enshittification thing and all you know the story.
The 3% is overall (including mobile). On the dekstop Firefox is at ~9%: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide
I hope it’s one of those phenomenas where it takes a long time to bridge one gap but an exponentially shorter time to double or triple that previous gain. Like it takes 32 years to crack 3%, 1 year to break 4% >> 15% in the next few years? A man can hope.
Ahhhh, it’s the year of the Linux desktop!
