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.
Well, we (linux nerds) have been saying that for a long time now. It is just not reaching people. And of course that is only for people absolutely want to play games. Everyone else who uses windoze is just coping.
well to be fair, a lot of this shit did not actually work a few years ago when I last tried… i’ve been using linux off and on for about 25 years but it seems it has come a long way in a short time in the gaming department lately
Exactly. It has been pretty top notch for the last three years but aside from gaming it has probably been ver good for 5-10.