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Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.

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[–] httperror418@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use Linux daily within my job, it's just I'm curious which OS people find the best for gaming (I run servers etc but want to see what people find is the least painful for gaming).

Basically, come the evening after work, I CBA to spend ages configuring stuff to then be able to play as time is precious in the evening

[–] 20hzservers@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use mint and barely had to do much trouble shooting and once everything was working how I wanted it didn't break for me I just boot up and play, the things I had to trouble shoot were getting my headphones to work and my Logitech mouse keybindings but they were both 5min searches to find programs to install and fix the problems, if you use Linux for work it will probably be even easier.

[–] httperror418@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I'll have a play later as I have a partition ready for dual boot. I only got windows 11 for cheap to see how it was but the constant bringing up of bing is irritating