Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
    • dil@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 days ago

      My computer just freezes and needs to be manually restarted, happens during boot when the terminal screen and flags pop up usually, could be a cachyos issue tho, happens primarily after I sudo pacman -Syu before shutdown

  • dan@upvote.au
    22·
    2 days ago

    I wonder how many are Steam Deck users. It’s brought Linux to a lot of people who otherwise wouldn’t have tried it.

  • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
    182·
    2 days ago

    It’s almost certainly much higher than that

    First of all, ChromeOS is Linux. It’s a weird Linux, but it is Linux and can be made to run regular Linux software. It’s based on Gentoo. It’s not just “technically” Linux; it just straight up is. It’s even more Linux than Android is.

    That adds another 2.69% up to 7.69%

    But also, the 4.77% Unknown is almost certainly made up of primarily Linux machines.

    So really, it’s a range of percentages anywhere from 7.69% to 12.46%. I would guess Linux users are at least 10% of the US market now

    Source: The StatCounter pages the article is referring to for US: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

    World wide is also similar: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

    There we’re potentially even higher: 5.33% to 14.5%. That’s just shy of the worldwide Mac users! macOS + OS X is 15.35% worldwide.

    • into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 day ago

      idk i’m not here to be a downer but it seems like counting chromeos kind of dilutes the open-source surge part of the headline yk? like obviously it counts as a linux but i wouldn’t call anything google-made libre at the very least.

      • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
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        12 hours ago

        Except that the Linux part of ChromeOS is still open-source and the growth of ChromeOS still would yield benefits to Linux users across the board.

        • into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 hours ago

          like i guess but linux has such high enterprise usage already that idk what it brings to the table for the free software people. if they didn’t have their own bespoke DE maybe that, but as far as i can tell the only thing chromeos brings that the enterprise guys don’t is consumer hardware support