I've finally turned totally windows-free last week so the stats are outdated. 🤣 Really, if you don't make music, there is no reason to stay in Windows. If you have troubles switching to linux is because you use Arch, use Ubuntu or some friendlier distro on a daily basis, that's at least what kept me reluctant for so long. GPUs work, Windows apps work, games work, multidisplay works, high refresh rate works, and Ubuntu has a pretty beautiful GUI.
Microsoft are the reason windows loses users, I would have stayed a very blissfully-ignorant casual computer user all my life it weren't for the increasingly user-adverse experience in windows reaching a point where it became necessary for me to learn how to A. fight back, and then B. learn how to escape the need to constantly fight altogether.
German government switched to Linux. Also the Crowdstrike Falcon error taking out so many windows computer systems was a wakeup call to everyone. I'm excited about this!
your narrative about India is misleading. When you have a worldwide 4,5% Linux usage and it is huge, how come when having 3% MacOS in India is not huge when you are talking about a country that most people do not have the ability to buy a Mac? I would say it is huge. You need to get away from just comparing a number and be able to look behind the scenes otherwise the numbers cannot tell the whole story
I am the 10% - Steam deck isn't doing this. Some, sure, but a lot of people are being pushed away from Microsoft because they know the writing is on the wall with AI literally recording your screen. There's no way it can store everything you've ever done locally. people would run out of storage space after a year even with a large SSD. it's nuts to think that this is possible. if it isn't sending the data out, how will the AI know what you've done and be able to "recall" it for you? asinine. Everything you've ever done, bank transactions, passwords, all recorded. Companies are taking note too. These businesses are fiends about their data, not just because of liability to their customers both enterprise and individual, but they have tax data, employee data. you can't do this shit and keep that trust. Long Live Linux. (I'm on Nobara btw)
It looks like Norway data is severely undersampled because those fluctuations are much too high? Like where would such a huge jump in Windows usage a year ago come from, at the cost of OSX and Linux usage both? Also just because Dell and Acer don't sell Linux computers doesn't mean people installed it manually, i mean it could be large organisations like governments making the move to Linux thus their IT is doing a sort of automated mass migration, similar to how PC vendors populate the computers with an operating system, and India and other countries could have local companies which mass produce Linux computers, because why not, people have to pay licenses now but nobody wants to be paying an extra $80 Microsoft tax if they don't have to.
The year of the Linux desktop. I had to laugh at that. I'll tell you when the year of the Linux desktop will be. The year after fusion energy gets commercialized. You heard it here first.
I have been looking to switch to Linux for years but i only just did because Linux is starting to be genuinely useable and windows is starting to genuinely be unuseable.
Linux is booming because it keeps getting better and better, recently it's monthly, not yearly. My first Linux experience was back in 2009 and it was Debian and it wasn't bad even back then, these days I use Mint on 3 and Arch on my main PC. Never had any troubles. There are some workarounds you have to do sometimes, however Windows has it's issues as well, I do use Windows on my company's PC, and in my experience it's more flawed than most of Linux distros. Edit: Good video btw and you have yourself yet another subscriber. keep it up!
Just installed Linux. After a reboot i have error about plasma. Screen is black and i have to force shut down the pc. I have never had to do this on mac or windows. Goodbye Linux. Fix your os and i might be back. I will be using something that just works.
you probably have a nvidia card and you were set to wayland as default, I had the same issue, you can try it again in six months and it will work! it should even work now
@@LinuxIsForAll not sure if this is a joke. I should way? No. Fix the os before you go telling people it’s better than windows. Then I might try it again.
'just works' is never a linux thing you still have to look for documentation and do terminal stuff for simple things to this day half of the things people claim it can do is either experimental, hit or miss or the dev goes MIA then its broken again lol 90% of linux apps is dead in the water except that 10% very popular ones that you see on featured software hub
Windows never gave me a black screen after reboot. The only thing that works is the mouse. Windows 11 in fact i have never seen 1 single error and it boots way faster too
@@Vitorfernandes83 Well i get where you're coming from, i've had the same issues when i got started too. Linux encourages you to learn in depth about how an operating system works, it's not for everybody but its fascinating when you start to get the gist of it, its beautiful dude. When i got started, i was panicking, now there are thousands of awesome videos so you are safe, The issue you are talking about can be fixed within few minutes, getting their was hard for me too. well in windows we know when a program fucks up, we either get the task manager or ALT F4 FTW. In similar ways linux has its own ways. It's community built! There are new concepts to learn which gives you these "Ahh Ha" moments. Then you'll end up quickly fixing them. You have no idea how fast linux can get, how easy your work can get, how unique you can make your own setup look, the freedom it gives you is insane. Like i said its not for everybody. My Productivity went through the roof. Don't even talk about resource usage, its INSANE. Be patient, Checkout UNIXPORN on reddit, if you like what you see, you can slowly get started. It's a journey man, a unique very usefull skill to learn. The knowledge you get from linux has multiple applications, your router, your smartphone, heck any smart device, you get this magical knowledge of how they work, you can start modding them outta nowhere. its crazy man! I ended up modding my own devices. It's nuts. I would like to ask you to install a firewall like portmaster and set the outbound rules to prompt. The amount of information that windows collects, the issues you face when you try to block them will make anyone go insane. That's a long rant, Try it out dude, it takes time but i wish you all the best <3 Cheers!
@@Vitorfernandes83 I'm mixed on it. First time I tried 11 it was great aside from some games not launching on Steam (RPGs specifically for some reason) but the OS was smooth as heck. The last time I tried it explorer.exe crashed three times, froze the last and I went back to Windows 10 and Linux Mint. Now I'm on a custom Windows 98 and Linux Mint with Windows 10 on a secondary drive and I can't say 11 is for me, it's the first Windows I've disliked since XP, Vista, and 8 (8.1 with Bing was fine)
Dunno why you're all spazzing. Linux has a lot more than 4.45% market saturation. Android has 70% market share of the mobile market and the mobile market dwarf's the desktop market. .
@@loucipher7782 Android is a Linux operating system. It is not a Linux distribution, which no one here has said. The "Android is Linux" topic is valid and factually correct. It is you who is confused.
Yeah no. These stats are fake af. And and and you should not be using such biased stats, if anything steam hardware survey might even be more correct than this. Statcounter is based on website script that steal visitors data. Its a paid product, paid data stealer so then: 1. Very few people and companies use it so it doesnt have wide enough reach. Because the price is PER PAGE VIEWS, the more popular a page becomes the less willing contenent creator is for wasting money on it. While basicaly all of the biggest websites have some sort of stat collecting, its all internal made. 2. Its biased: Data spikes like the one u describe now can be EASILY faked by suddenly asking Linux websites to get the thing. Because its web data stealer, the data it collects is biasad on whats the website content about. A website about mac os things will have massive % of mac users. Websites about linux things will have close to 80% linux users. 2a. All you have to do is produce a website with some samsung phone guides, put a stat counter on it and suddenly you will discover suprise suprise most users have samsung web as web browser so thererefore it means its most popular browser ? no its not. All it needs is a website or 3 about linux, getting statcounter and suddenly your linux stats will fake-increase.
Exactly this, I know the reason why I'm amongst that rise in percentage is because of windows seemingly doing everything in it's power to become unpopular with any user even slightly more knowledgeable than the average casual user, and value privacy and control over the supposed and increasingly less convenience microsoft has always sold itself upon.
If the big apps don´t move to Linux, the year of Linux if never gonna come, I feel bad cause I got 5 machines all running Linux, but I don´t need Adobe nor do I need engineering tools like AutoCad
They're mostly imploding and worthless at this point. I just have to ditch maya which I have made a custom plugin for and that actually runs on linux too anyway.
I have Macs, windows , Chromebook, android and a number of Linux desktop systems. If you do the maths this way I'm 60% Linux. But in terms of genuine usage time. Linux is about 0.1% of my touch time. If you could desktop android and ChromeOS as a Linux distro then it'll be more like 0.5% hands on time. Purely because it is less useful..usable. real question would be how many people use Linux desktops as their only device/ primary device, world wide.. ultimately using poor metrics hurts linux as a whole.. that alone tells you the 4% is junk data. the reason for multiple Linux
the tracker is counting desktop web traffic, and is based on the amount of queries produced by each system. You won't be making queries on systems you never use
@@nilnailscrew4784 so when an employee spends 8 hours of the work day working on coding/writing a document on a Mac/windows and then 10mins using Linux to check and email in the evening, Linux gets all the hits and all the windows/Mac usage time is uncounted. the breakdown will have huge geographical bias. none of this is considered in the data. the more meaningful questions is what's the percentage of non-browsing (productive) time for the respective OSs.
@@quantumbacon I feel like it's pretty dubious to assume that you're going to be generating 0 web traffic just because you aren't working in a web browser but I get where you're coming from. Browser traffic isn't a perfect analogue for computer use. However I don't know of another more accurate accessible metric for desktop market share. This is the best we've got really and web traffic is at least an ok indicator of market share.
4% +- several % sounds plausible. But the point was that no attention was given to error margins in their data... also no clarity on unique users, session time, installations, or what fraction of reality the data came from. 4% (if we believe it) share has taken over 30years.. but that's fragmented to the different desktop environments. it's a shame.. And once you're subsumed inside the browser the OS is mostly irrelevant... Which is why non-browser usage time is a more valuable aspiration than in-browser anything for the actual OS value. Unlike the old days, operating systems are given free now. everyone should be able to use any OS or Many OSs. it's not clear what the value of counting the desktop market share is either. mobile is where all the volume/differentiation is and the lighter apple laptops are already beyond the legacy definition of what a desktop is also.
actually i think if we somehow manage to get just one manufacture like asus, msi, lenovo, dell etc. to make devices with manufacture pre-installed linux we can get insane increase of people that are coming to linux. Also im so freaking mad my country is so dumb to split in half because of politics and skip entirly things what is ms doing and what is actually like almost every company in bigtech doing rightnow with tech (unfortunatly i live in poland)
Same here, I am from Brazil. Decades ago we had a digital sovereign project. At least in public institutions we had to use open source software. The project was dismantled in a few years because microsoft has middle management access on almost every goverment institution. Their salesmen where trained on linux "weakness" and advocated for their product instead. Open souce projects do not have paid advocates and salesperson only the IT professionals advocate for them. Managment quickly ignores the experts and listens to salesman everytime... it is frustating, FOSS do not have a grip on what matters: politics and money
@@notjustforhackers4252 I've tried several distros of linux and all of them have given me problems... I like linux too but it needs a lot more to be able to compete with windows...
@@notjustforhackers4252yes there is. I was only 5 seconds into Linux and already an error about plasma. Never had a single error on windows 11 in almost 2 years
@@notjustforhackers4252 Don't act like Linux is perfect, this gives people false expectations and WILL cause them to leave when they're not met. It's not as bad as they said, but it's not as simple as you're making it out to be either.
Linux be like: -And I have to thank you for my succeses. (linux starting to stand up from the chair slowly) Linux: -Sit down Linux, I'm talking about Windows!
I see this as some kind of Scizophrenic episode where Linux fights Linux while Linux watches lmao MacOS in the corner scared and confused, probably slightly aroused too. And Windows wondering which side they're supposed to be fighting.
@@BlueEyedVibeChecker More like Windows hits its own genitals with a brick in confusion. If Win10 stops working, unless some miracle and win 12 or 13 gets good, thats it. I either switch to linux or threw out my pc and go back to monkey.
Linux probably already has a better compatibility with Windows binaries then any recent Windows version still receiving support. So you need to be a bit more specific.
Linux having a low marketshare was never the problem. The problem with Linux is that the 4.4% is divided into 1000 distros with varying levels of security, varying levels of compatibility, varying levels of layout and structure... It's a complete mess and a lot of people already give up at step-1 "picking the distro to use". I don't want to see "Linux" hitting 4.4%, I want to see a distro hit that % and actually be the face of the Linux community. I don't care which distro, I just want "a" distro to become the main go-to OS for everyone that's looking to transition from Windows. Instead of what's happing right now... If I go into a Linux community and ask which distro to install, I'm gonna get 20 different answers and real reasons to why I should pick this or that distro. It's insanity and a real reason why people either dual-boot or just don't use Linux at all.
Anakin: I don’t think the system works. Padme: How would you have it work? Anakin: We need a system where the politicians sit down and discuss the problem, agree what’s in the best interest of all the people and then do it. Padme: That’s exactly what we do. The trouble is that people don’t always agree. Anakin: Well then they should be made to. Padme: By whom? Who is going to make them? Anakin: I don’t know, someone. Padme: You? Anakin: Of course not me. Padme: But someone. Anakin: Someone wise. Padme: It sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me. Anakin: Well, if it works…
Yep, fragmentation is a real problem, but it is a direct consequence of Linux distros usually being community driven. There are of course a few good projects that try to unify Linux (ie systemd), but a lot of people don't like them, because "they don't follow the unix philosophy". If we want to make a truly modern Linux distro, without fragmentation, that would just work, we'd have to abandon old unix traditions that are not applicable anymore and focus on modern computing.
@@int32_ I don't know if fragmentation is the problem, but I'm quiet sure the lack of a flagship does. I think Ubuntu is almost there, it has to be one of the most widely supported and mainstream distro that I can think of. But then you have distro's like Mint that's based on Ubuntu and that's where it breaks down for me. Now I have to chose between Ubuntu and Mint. Why can't they just merge? (and yeah i know Ubuntu apps works on Mint etc.) Ubuntu clearly has the engine under the hood, and Mint has the UI, design and structure. It would be so amazing if they just ditched Ubuntu and Mint as separate projects and made a unified OS. Specifically Ubuntu and Mint would be an amazing day for a lot of Windows users, including me.
Are you saying Ubuntu is bad now and it's because it's woke? I remember that Ubuntu had a controversy because they included analytics in their official images, but they removed them and they recovered the trust of the community. Ubuntu still is the face of the Linux community and a very good distro for newbies. I installed Ubuntu Budgie on my laptop and so far, it's going great. And I haven't seen any rainbow nor is the default background two dudes kissing. Although maybe I will put a GG Bridget wallpaper.
Calculating 4 percent of a billion as possible linux users is incorrect, How many people in India own a PC/windows product then calculate 4% of that as a ball park for how many users have switched to Linux.
Every Indian doesn't have laptop or desktop computer maybe 60 to 70 percentage with less powerful Hardware but more than 90 percentage have Android. And Steam Deck isn't popular in India. Linux manufacturers are also missing, so Linux is manually installed on pc.
I did after the Recall desaster install in dual boot as well the Linux Distro Tuxedo OS. Windows 11 for gaming only. On both of my systems and on one of my relatives (an elderly) I installed only Tuxedo OS and erased Windows 10 completely. We never will regret this. Windows could vanish over night as well and I would only know that because of gaming. Tuxedo OS is similar to Windows 11. Optionally there is Pop OS as well.
I am an Indian and I used to think 4% seems a little too less considering how many people I know who uses Linux. 16% for India seems more like it. I know why Linux is picking up, it is Steam. It is not Steam Deck, it is the platform. Now that you can play practically any game on Steam on Linux, people have no reason to stick to Windows.
"no reason to stick to Windows." On Linux I have less fps, heavy fps drops happen more often. I would have to buy a more expensive graphics card, and still these drops would not be eliminated. I would spend a lot more on a card to have a similar fps average, the strong drops I would not eliminate. I don't see the point. There are other disadvantages. Like an unstable ever-changing ecosystem. E.g. several incompatible wayland implementations, lately very unstable and full of bugs KDE6. Problems with different programs and games on different distributions. Continuously inferior hardware support (laptops). I would say that a few years ago desktop linux had fewer bugs and was more stable than today.
@@piotrc966 What you said is correct but i like to look at the trend in the future. Here, a little context: Windows pros (this part did not change lately) - Everyone knows and develops programs for it - Everything works"?" (as it was designed for it) Windows cons (oh boy this is the part is getting worst lately) - paid "?" - Various security problems - Microsoft abusing it's costumer base, obligatory Microsoft account, obligatory upgrades etc . - Ads and subscription model incoming Linux pros (This part is getting better) - free"?" - Porting programs from windows is becoming a seamless experience !!! - Some manufacturers jumped the wagon on supporting Linux drivers natively - Steam is standardizing gaming on Linux. ( In the future we will have everything we need mapped and translated from windows. Drivers + Vulkan + proton + wine + steam library. this part will be endlessly polished with time and big players are comming together, even NVidia ) Linux cons ( This has remained about the same) - Most manufacturers do not support Linux yet. It will be some time for many of them to wake up - distribution fragmentation - everything else you pointed out and more etc...
@@piotrc966 I dont have less fps or drops in linux compared to windows, I think it depends on what you are using. If you want stability and to not be changing much you can use debian for example. Wayland complaints are fair enough, it is slowly becoming mainstream but it still have some quirks here and there, idk about kde since I dont use it
It's 4% GLOBAL market share, your country is irrelevant to this video. Besides you guys need to use Windows so you can continue scamming vulnerable elderly people.
