Linux

Nothing about Linux users is quiet.

I use arch btw

At work, the windows outage spooked management hard. They noticed that our small amout of Linux servers didn't go down. So now they are OK with us using Linux more. After many decades of Windows.

Installed linux for my brother-in-law and for a professor last month. Both liked it and are probably going to use it insted of moving to win11. I'm doing my part.

Hi hello, this is partly me. My bad. I’m not moving to Win11 (by force and by choice) so I installed Arch just to start to get the hang of things and, well, now I’m just daily driving it.

I’ve run distributions in the distant past and toyed with recent ones. I think this one is staying though.

Feels good that when my computer is idle, it’s not busy spouting off telemetry to some server somewhere. I can customize way more than before, and with Proton, I can still play the games I want to.

finally doing it as my daily driver

Kids really need to be introduced to Linux earlier. None of this iPad baby shit.

https://endof10.org/

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.

Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

My gamer Brother-in-law asked me about Linux gaming. Until a few years ago he was all like "Windows is super!".

Is this the century of Linux?

I recently wiped my 10yr running windows install that had all manner of shady hacks applied over the years to basically lobotomize it, after a hardware upgrade. As I was wiping I was largely intending to create another "lobotomized" win10 install as the second install on dual boot, but windows on top of everything is known for breaking dual boot. Working around sheer hostility at every level, and for what? Basically just to play pirated games since steam games work on Linux now. I never bothered trying to prop it back up and have been only better off for it

Do I dare say it?

All my extended family has been converted to linux because all they need is a browser, libre office and rustdesk for me to tech support them. The only issue is still printers but tbh they are equally awful on all platforms these days.

The Quiet Revolution?

is this implying that windows is catholicism and we’re mass secularizing our computers?

cause hell yea

Is Linux desktop marketshare increasing or is desktop marketshare decreasing as a whole, though?

If you’re sitting on a Windows 10 machine that can’t upgrade to Windows 11, or if you’re tired of Apple’s walled garden, now’s the time to explore PureOS, a FSF endorsed GNU/Linux distribution.

God damn it. This is how you scare people away from Linux.

Once again, someone misreports the number. It's not 6% of desktop OS market share. It's 6% of all OS market share. There's about 50-50 split between desktop and mobile OSes, which means the correct desktop market share of Linux, according to that site, is 12%.

Who is using Linux, though? Like, 6% (or 11.3% as others have pointed out) means tens or hundreds of millions of people. But where are they?

How do we know these numbers indicate real people?

I understand why Android is not counted as GNU/Linux desktop, but why is ChromeOS not counted as such?

*For the USA government only