https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/
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I suspect this is largely do to two things:
- SteamOS
- More people don’t have desktops anymore and just use their phone
But SteamOS I believe is the major Trojan horse needed to convert the gamers. After the gamers, I hope other industries will take it seriously.
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Already did. See the other Steamdeck clones and MS/Xbox and Playstation having their own portable device.
@jerm Just wait until the Linux contrarians find out, and move to one of the BSDs 🤣.
Humor aside, it is good to see growth in the desktop Linux space.
Assuming that they sold around 4-5 million units, is that enough to increase the current share to what it is right now?
I awefully remember desktop market share barely being 2% over five years ago, Glad things change though,
Lol I may do this, just to be few a step ahead of the crowd and not be the lowest hanging fruit (Assuming the crowd moves over to Linux and makes it the low hanging fruit).
Lets hope increased market share leads to better attitudes towards and implementations of security in Linux.I know the security experts here regard it as relatively insecure
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I’m not sure how such effort can be made in the first place.
For example, the fact there are some folks hesitant with adopting Wayland and promoting Rust development shows that security isn’t always considered by Linux developers. Of course, there are valid complaints with both but point still stands generally speaking. It’s hard to implement these features without backlash from the old guard.
Misconstructing privacy as security really did damage on our perception of Linux over the past 20 years.
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GrapheneOS desktop is a reasonably secure implementation of desktop Linux, so I’d be comfortable getting the “crowd” over to that
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I’m not the one to quantify what a desktop Linux distro is, but there is a world of a difference between the usability of Graphene OS’ Desktop Mode (which is a secondary beta feature of a mobile operating system) compared to a standard Linux distribution like Fedora.
Not saying that feature-parity is not impossible, there is a lot of potential in GOS expanding to a future Android-based laptop with the merger of Chrome OS and Android.
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