- cross-posted to:
- windows@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- windows@sopuli.xyz
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Hmm… I wonder why Linux has yet to rise.
I mean, we only have like 17 months until support for Windows 10 ends, it’s not like it’s that long.
I’m thinking real hard about making my next system Mint…
I’m gonna start with a baby step. I want to set up a mini pc for my living room streaming. I’m thinking I’ll do Linux on it and dip my toe in the water that way, eventually I’ll transition to Linux on my main pc too once I get the hang of it. Most of what I do is online or open source so Im not locked to programs. It’s mostly games atm, a couple of which won’t run on Linux, league of legends is one if they go ahead with vanguard. I’ll either set up a completely separate mini pc to only play league or quit.
I would absolutely recommend it! It works very well and with the cinnamon version it comes with many cool apps that I would never call bloat. (I never knew that I could watch live TV via internet, thanks Hypnotix!). My biggest issues were the Nvidia drivers for gaming, but I only needed to press 5 buttons to install the proprietary ones, and with Proton all of my games ran just fine. Except for the VR games. That is the only reason why I still keep that other OS on my disk.
Same here. I’m going to be testing Mint and PopOS! soon.
I’m thinking the same thing with KDE Neon. Idk, Mint just feels WAY too similar to Windows. I get some people like that, but I don’t wanna be reminded of something inferior.
Good luck with your mint.
It has. For the first time, it’s risen to over 4% of market share of desktops: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-share-reaches-4-of-desktops/
Of course this doesn’t count Android or Chromebooks, both of which run Linux on some level.
That’s a win.
It will major corporate and legislative backing to even attempt one. For many end users the desktop pc, if they ever have one, is yet another techie stuff they don’t want to bother themselves with. You don’t simply get them to install a new program, let alone an entirely new operating system. Some do make the leap, however.
I guess that kinda makes sense.
But we’ll, Ubuntu was basically the average computer user’s introduction to Linux (even if it kinda sucks now), I kinda think it could still do the job fairly well… only for those users to switch to a potentially better distro.
Opening the command prompt in windows is considered ‘hacking’ these days. Using Ubuntu is a big leap.
Oh, I use it quite a lot.
Once I spent a few days with Ubuntu, I had a very strong reliance on the terminal for simply installing stuff (because I wanna avoid that Snap Store), it takes some time to learn, but I don’t think it’s that difficult.
You are correct. This is what MS is counting on. Usability is something MS saw as unnecessary (just a cost) back in the '90s, and instead counting on the ubiquitous nature of windows and the office suite to dominate the market. It will be a quite the hurdle to overcome for any competing operating systems.
I’ve been thinking on switching to linux on my laptop but I keep reading on the worse battery life on linux.
You should try booting to a live USB stick. Then you can check how the performance compares on your hardware, without any permanent changes.
Eh, my lappy has terrible battery life regardless of what OS is running on it, and even then, I always use it plugged it anyway, exactly like Strong Bad (it’s why I used the word “Lappy”)