I just transitioned to Linux. Fully removed windows.
I'm doing my part!
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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Proton is a big deal for the change. Think back 5 years ago and switching to Linux was much less approachable because you needed to be an enthusiast to get your games running. Nowadays, you just click download on the Linux Steam client and >90% of the time, it'll just work.
I have been on Linux for over 15 years and even I don't want to go back to the old days of manually installing Wine and having to create different prefixes to get different games to launch without sound. or some missing textures.
not manually, yeah, but bottles and such are still really useful. it shows how much good GUI tools help with usability for everyone
Not just UI, but simplicity of operation. The closer to "it just works" a system/program is, the more palatable it is to adopt.
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100% this. I've been on Linux for 27 years now (ffs I'm getting old), and until proton, I just wrote off gaming as a hit or miss experience, usually not worth the trouble. Now I'll buy Windows only games without even checking compatibility in most cases. Unless it's a full price AAA game, I'll risk the off chance that it doesn't work.
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inb4 Linux users sweepingly get declared as criminals for some flimsy reason. There was some news of Facebook filtering out Linux content because it seemed harmful to them.
You wouldn't download an operating system, would you?
Of course not! I will only get organic / grass fed computers with a OS preinstalled by the vendor. They only do this to protect the users and not for the fuckton of money MS shoves into their throats.
Reminds me of the thing in Spain where the cops just immediately suspect anyone of drug trafficking for using pixel devices because thats what grapheneos runs on.
I'm less worried about any specific targeting of Linux than I am about some random tech bro whispering in Trump's ear and suddenly he bans Open Source or something similarly unenforceable and insane.
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With the current political climate, my bf worries about exactly this. (Linux users being viewed as criminals, I mean.)
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Thank you Pewdiepie!!
He single-handedly changed a lot of people’s impression of Linux with a single video, and he did it gently enough to not intimidate and scare them away like many others did. I respect that.
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Hopefully this surge in users make people want to develop for it a lot more and break more walls for others who are interested.
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At some point companies will be forced to accept that they're losing out on revenue by not releasing a linux version of their software.
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I made the switch recently for probably the strangest reason.
I’ve been running win 11 for over a year using a shell tool that allowed me to move my task bar to the top of the screen and some other win 10 functionality.
However win 11 removed the ability to move the task bar and my shell program lost most of its functionality. After that I was done.
I’ve Linux off and on since 2002ish so it’s not scary to me and I’m pretty happy with Arch and KDE right now. Still the occasional crash that appears to happen sometimes when watching YouTube.
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Wow, that's excluding Chrome OS, which has 2.71% on it's own. So you could say Linux is at over 7%, but glad they split it so we know.
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I hopped on the Linux train when Microsoft began pushing hard for AI integration and Microsoft accounts. I fucking hate AI and I don't need some corpo cunt looking over my shoulder and taking notes while I use my computer.
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I'm doing my part! Switched to Linux earlier this year because Microsoft started showing ads in the start menu. I tried Nobara but ran into some glitches that I didn't want to troubleshoot so I switched to Bazzite. So far so good.
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Woooo! Year of the linux desktop baby!!
- pumps fist in air*
Finally, the year of Desktop Linux. Twenty years after we were promised. And it's still a pittence, but I'll take it.
I'm on a Mac, only use Linux for server stuff, but the more people we can get off Windows, the better. Let's go!
Thanks, Gaben.
Great, but I don't think that graph is showing any particular spike, just a nice and gentle upward trend in share. The article also overlooks that there is a certain element of Windows and MacOS computers being replaced by tablets and phones, while Linux is already an enthusiast choice on the desktop, meaning it will be insulated somewhat and gain market share through attrition.
On the plus side, Steam and Proton and maturing DEs/distros and enshittification of Windows certainly make Linux a much more viable "normie" option than it's ever been. We're a far cry from the CD-ROM of Red Hat that came with my "Intro to Linux" book in 1999 but couldn't use my Winmodem or printer and really preferred to run XWindows in grayscale.
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As pointed out on hackernews, this is likely attributed to (a) decrease in desktop usage by non-linux-users, and (b) the gaming hardware industry embracing linux (steam deck etc.)
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Just switched to Linux for my daily driver laptop!
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