Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

The Register ^ | 18 July 2023 | Liam Proven

[ShadowAce]

[Paladin2]

Linux only here.

For pushing a decade.

Four boxes at two locations. [redundancy is not just a good idea....]

[backwoods-engineer]

Wow. I didn’t understand just how much of a minority I am in. I run desktop Linux on four machines at home, all some flavor of Ubuntu. I do not own a Windows machine, but my wife has one (I must support, sigh) and my work machine is also Wormdos.

[taxcontrol]

I use Linux Mint as my personal desktop

[Pearls Before Swine]

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

Wouldn't it have 100 percent?

[Openurmind]

“Wow. I didn’t understand just how much of a minority I am in.”

Stands to reason... That would be about in line with the percentage of the wise and intelligent folks left in the world.

[fireman15]

I have too much time and money invested in Windows software, along with games that will not run in Linux. But I do dual boot all of my laptops except for one with Ubuntu Studio and Windows 10 Pro.

I also have a Ubuntu installation on a USB stick that will work with almost any computer that can boot from USB. It is a “persistent” installation meaning that whatever changes I make or work I save are ready to go in whatever host machine that I put it in.

[ShadowAce]

Wouldn't it have 100 percent?

Well, if you could read the very first line of the article, it would explain that to you.

[ShadowAce]

Linux only here.

For pushing a decade.

I've been Linux-only for over 20 years now.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I understand that, but the headline is self-contradictory.

[Noumenon]

My workaday laptop is a dual SSD unit with Linux Mint installed on one and Windows-if-I-must installed on the other.

[ShadowAce]

Understood. It’s meant to draw you in to see what the heck it’s talking about.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Not an uncommon practice on the Internet to garner eyeballs and click counts.

[ShadowAce]

My workaday laptop is a dual SSD unit

Same here--although mine has the OS on the smaller one and my /home on the larger one.

[Boogieman]

"Well, if you could read the very first line of the article..."

Hey now, we have rules around here.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I’d like to know more about that. Could you point me to a link where I could peruse and shop? Or did you customize your own? Have long awaited a departure from Windows, though I put up with it.

[GingisK]

Wouldn’t Linux have 100% of the Linux desktop market?

[threefinger]

"But ChromeOS, and especially ChromeOS Flex? Of course, all the advocates decry it as not being a True Linux, but then again, this just quickly descends into a "no true Scotsman" argument. As it is, the Fedora lot think Ubuntu is junk, and the Debianisti think everything else is junk, and the Arch folk think they are the true cutting edge, Slackware enthusiasts consider everyone else newbies, while the NixOS folk think all the rest are still in the stone age somewhere, and the OpenSUSE gang sing, Deutschland über alles… ®

Fixed it for them.

[ducttape45]

I got Linux, but my machines are dual-boot. In addition, the newer versions of Linux now won’t browse my Windows network. I don’t know what happened, and I’ve tried several fixes, but it just won’t network. Still, I can do almost everything I need to do with Linux so that is my preferred O/S. Now if only I can get the blasted thing to network I’d be right as rain.