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Up to 2.7% in May 2025 from 1.5% in May 2023. Almost x2 in 2 years is very impressive.

  • Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish
    31·
    33 minutes ago

    I wanted to switch but then saw nvidia’s drivers are even worse on linux than windows. Maybe once I’m ready for a gpu upgrade I’ll go AMD and make the switch because it feels like if theres little hope of nvidia fixing their drivers for PC there is zero hope for linux.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 hour ago

    It just goes to show you. The only way to get the Linux desktop market share up is not building. Something better than Windows we have been there for a while. It’s make hardware, put Linux on that hardware and sell it in a store. Avg people don’t change operating systems. They change computers. Now if we could just get steam decks in retail stores. It would be a huge.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
      5·
      1 hour ago

      Exactly. Linux will never become the majority OS as long as it’s not the default OS on retail PCs.

    • bimbimboy@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Avg people don’t change operating systems

      This is a huge argument, even Linus Torvalds said that many years ago. The average person just wants to buy a computer and use it normally for work, casual stuff or gaming. They won’t make the effort to change the operating system.

      Now if we could just get steam decks in retail stores

      We can also get the Steam OS on different hardwares, just like the Lenovo Legion Go S

  • taaz@biglemmowski.win
    23·
    4 hours ago

    Two of my friends switched recently.
    They had none to very little experience with anything Linux before, their previous win11 installs just over bloated and the copilot bullshit pushed them over. Both (indie/non-pop shooters) gamers btw.

    This is the year of linux.

    • Jay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I wish I could get my friends to switch. I even had one tell me they would rather use it if supported the games that don’t work (which of course are games with anti-cheat issues). But they at least recognize that Windows is getting quite bloated

    • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      126·
      3 hours ago

      I’m not honestly. As far as I know SteamOS is based on arch which should give it a massive boost in comparison to other linux distros just from the number of Steam Decks

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        3 hours ago

        I would expect Steam to report Steam OS as Steam OS.

        They managed to differentiate Manjaro to it’s own entry after all. It’s Arch based too.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
        6·
        2 hours ago

        They got hit by a lot of negative reviews and bad publicity those last years. Myself gave it a try last years and while it isn’t a bad distro from first impression… The fact that they add bookmarks into my firefox and Manjaro bootscreen at start gave me a strange feeling… Specially because this happend after the bios bootscreen hack. And I know this is not related but it still gave me strange gut feeling and always follow your guts !

        Happy EndeavourOS user !