Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
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  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    When I was part of the KDE marketing working group, we always talked about 5% being the magic number. If we hit that, then the avalanche of ported and supported third party software starts. It’s a weird chicken and egg thing. Looks like we’re close!

  • jelloeater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I mean, it’s no secret that the SteamDeck is a huge reason why. Praise Gaben, may we game on every platform equally.

  • ChewTiger@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I switched my gaming PC to Linux two months ago and I’m loving it. I’ve only had to boot my Windows drive twice.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      India is the eye opener … an enormous market of 1.5 billion people and the majority of them are too poor to pay for any specialty OS … it’s going to turn into a futuristic dystopia down there … people living in slums but scrounging up old neglected and forgotten hardware to bring them back online with Open Source Software.

      Edit: I don’t normally make big corrections or changes to my comments but after rereading this, I think I went a bit too far with my assumptions about another country and culture … thanks @embed_me@programming.dev for putting it to my attention

      • embed_me@programming.dev
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        2 years ago

        Ok as an Indian allow me to interject. The reason people use linux is not because of poverty. Even the cheapest laptops come preloaded with activated windows.

        We get introduced to Linux based OSs in schools. That plus people are heavily pushed into engineering and lately computer science and software engineering.

        • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I was probably too hasty in my assumptions … simplistic, stereotypical maybe even a bit racist

          I just thought it made economic sense … why build an entire economy or business using foreign owned software and basing it all on a foreign company, especially one with unknown loopholes that would put the company’s and country at risk by a foreign power.

          Thanks for the correction and insight … I’ll be more careful about my assumptions in the future.

          • embed_me@programming.dev
            0·
            2 years ago

            Thanks for acknowledging it.

            Also another thing you are wrong about: You may be surprised to know that the second hand market for computer electronics is non-existent. As far as I know, there are only a handful of cities in the whole country where there is a second hand local market. Cheap electronics don’t last that much and in laptops there are only so many components you can buy separately and install. (Overwhelming majority of the computers are laptops, not the traditional CPU towers)

            Also another thing I failed to mention is, the government tried to make a distro for govt use at one point but idk if anything came out of that. But I want to say there’s definitely a growing presence of linux here

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    3.82% is actually pretty damn good. And if Windows 12 pushes us into a subscription model I can see that gap rising.

    Also, if/when DirectX gets native Linux support, or DXVK/VKD3D matches the API in performance, that’ll be it.

    Personally I’m thanking Valve for this.