That’s a huge increase.

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Linux market share

windows market share

A real “tortoise vs hare” situation it seems.

Pace of adoption also seems to be accelerating , from 2009 to about 2016 it went from 0.5 to 1,5 (+ 1 percent), from 2016 to 2023 it went from 1.5 to 3 (+1.5 percent), the adoption also seems to be at least doubling about every decade (which might indicate a “word to mouth” growth pattern.

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Something to keep in mind with these graphics are that the scales are hugely different and more notably that the numbers do not add to 100%. Also the percent vs percentage point thing mentioned by @VonReposti@feddit.dk.

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The increase is not 1 and 1.5 percent but 1 and 1.5 percentage points

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The increase is not 1 and 1.5 percent but 1 and 1.5 percentage points

tbh i don’t really see the point in mentioning this.

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Because original is incorrect. For the first increase 0.5% to 1.5% is an increase of 200% while the increase in percentage points is 1. The reason it’s important is that it can skew the readability of the statistics to a degree where the numbers at best are confusing and at worst are misleading. In your case you accidentally understated the significance of the increase.

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Steam and CodeWeavers drive this adoption at fast pace with proton and vulkan…

Other are some developer that switch fully from WSL2 to Linux (like me).

Other are finding refuge… welp…

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Same here. WSL1 has shown me the ecosystem of Linux, so I decided to switch from Windows to Linux completely.

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Well, but now WSL2 with GUI seems threaten a little about Linux DE in the end :/

WSL number is quite high with dev, and sometimes I also think WSL2 is convenient because I don’t need to have desktop linux to work with.

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This is it, lads! We are in the Year of The Linux Desktop ™ x3!

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Year of the Linux desktop, is it?

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I switched to Fedora Workstation as my daily use drive this year, so for me sure it is!

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Every year will be year of Linux Desktop. keep the pie bigger… and bigger for anyone… Make GNU/Linux grow and Grow and GROW

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It’ll be interesting to see if that number climbs once Windows 10 reaches EOL.

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Win 10 IOT Enterprise LTSC will be my last Windows. I’m fairly sure Linux will be significantly greater in 2032, so I can avoid this spyware trash. Unfortunately my area of expertise is C#/.NET, so I’m stuck with this trash at work when I will be a working citizen.

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.NET 5 and 6 are cross platform, so there is a Linux version. Unfortunately there is no Visual Studio for Linux (yet), only for MacOS.

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Yeah luckily some people use C#/.NET on Linux with VS Code or Rider usually, it’s just VS Studio is de facto standard in companies,

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In personal experience there has been a big rise of Linux on the server and more people being forced to get used to it. Docker is pushing this along even more now. We are seeing the continued rise in osx and improvements in the Linux desktop. Moving away from windows is becoming more acceptable now, even in corporations. This will continue!

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