Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
Another fresh month and so we have the latest operating system market share details from Statcounter, and it's another impressive showing for Linux from August 2024.
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10Welcome to the club
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What happened around '20?
I'm asking that because, the way that I'm reading this graph, there's a plateau between '15 and '20, and then a slope upwards.
15Rumors that Valve was working on a portable gaming unit had emerged in May 2021
Perhaps. The timing fits considerably better than the other alternatives mentioned until now.
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I think it's a combination of factors:
- Long term trend of services moving from native desktop to more web apps which incidentally improves Linux support
- Valve pushing Linux Gaming to new heights
- Flatpak reaches critical mass and shipping on multiple distros by default
- Unpopularity of the latest Windows development trends
- Average PC user becoming more technically inclined -- "normal" people more likely to skip the PC and go mobile-only
13Windows 10 and 11 happened
Edit: Also around 2017 DXVK happened bringing high end gaming to Linux
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@Beaver Wonder how much of M$ trying to cram Recall on everyone drove that.
13it's definitely having an impact on my customers as they're concerned about staying on Windows
the biggest blocker for them is Windows app parity on Linux
12@recursive_recursion Having helped over 200 users migrate from windows to mac over the years, I find that it's more fear than anything. Most folks are just using email, browser and some time of office suite.
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.1% gain is smashing records now?
12So that's why this figure is not in the title. Sharing such posts is disrespectful towards the community.
8I think the smashing records is referring to breaking record after record. I'm also curious about the absolute increase of users, 0.1% increase could be a lot of new users in just a month.
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Did M$ force more users to install windows 11 or something? What's going on?
Btw, can somebody try and fit that curve to project when it hits 20% or something? That looks like an exponential function.
6Windows 10 is going EOL in Oct of 2025
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