Another fresh month and so we have the latest operating system market share details from Statcounter, and it's another impressive showing for Linux from August 2024.
  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    I’m not sure how true this is, but I read somewhere that when Mac got above 5% market share, it suddenly got a lot more mainstream support.

    I wonder if that means we’re are a year or two away from Linux as a mainstream option.

    I’d love to have an arm based Linux laptop with software support for one of my critical work apps.

  • qwestjest78@lemmy.ca
    32·
    11 months ago

    I would love to switch to Linux, but everytime I try to look at it seriously, I get overwhelmed by the choosing of distros and people saying its hard and complicated. I wish it was more clear cut where you should start. I used to think it was ubuntu, but then people shit on it. Then I thought it was Mint, then people shit on that. So on and so forth. Makes it hard to understand how to even approach it.

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
      4·
      11 months ago

      Mint would be a perfect distro to start with. Don’t listen to them—just download Mint. I don’t like Ubuntu but honestly it would be fine too. In other words, although it does matter, it does not matter as much as people say as long as you do not start with something to too hard to install.

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlM
      3·
      11 months ago

      Please do not care about people shitting on popular distros. As a gentoo user myself, it’s as niche as it gets, but I will wholeheartedly recommend Ubuntu and mint.