After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share

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[–]bucetao6969 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Thank Valve (a private company) for that.

[–]Megatron95 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

They made gaming on Linux a viable option.

[–]bucetao6969 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

And the steam deck. The steam deck is a mainstream user device, it literally skyrocketed linux usage.

[–]Megatron95 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yes. It also improved driver support especially for GPUs. That being said, I'm fine with Linux not being or becoming mainstream.

[–]bucetao6969 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not. I want windows DEAD.

[–]LarrySwinger2 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (13 children)

They'll hit 100% in just 970 more years!

[–]bucetao6969 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (12 children)

This number might seen low but they're coming awfully close to Mac.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

lol, that's not a complement

[–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean the 3%

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    [–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

    Very sophisticated troll attempts mr twosteps.

    [–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

    Yeah, you can see by the fact that he claimed a Mac is a computer.

    [–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    Nope, it's the final straw. I had suspicions he is spamming posts with chatGPT prompts and this was the final straw that made me realize he indeed is.

    [–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    You found the Ed.

    [–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Another one!

    And another one!

    [–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Whack-an-Ed.

    (Except you can't whack, only m7 is able to but he doesn't bother.)

    [–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Ehhhh I mean. I think we're better off without site-wide bans. That was one of reddit's issues.

    [–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    It's probably not ChatGPT, but some open-source version. I'd imagine ChatGPT to have implemented a troll message detector.

    [–]IkeConn 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

    Linux is everywhere. You just don't see it.

    [–]bucetao6969 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

    Linux runs the world. Windows runs adobe photoshop.

    [–]Megatron95 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    The self-service tills at Shopper's Drug Mart use Suse Linux. I saw one rebooting and it had the chameleon logo for Suse.

    [–]sproketboy 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    Only Linux fag commies think 3% is everywhere.

    [–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Every website you use has linux servers.

    [–]notafed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    3% on the desktop. The actual share when you include all servers, embedded devices, and android devices is far, far higher.

    [–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Android devices? Ehhhh, sure I think.

    [–]notafed 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    They run a linux kernel with a completely different UI on top compared to desktops.

    [–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    5% would be enough to keep steam and lutris alive, just use amdgpu driver

    [–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    haven't heard of anyone using linux in 30 years

    [–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    You'd be surprised.