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.
Yesss! I’m so excited that Linux is gaining more traction. With any luck, maybe more devs will start adopting open source projects as well.
After a disgusting fight with UEFI, TPM and a bunch of other issues I finally have Fedora installed. It honestly just gets better and better each year that I’ve tried it since ~2005.