100% of supercomputers, 80% of mobile devices (as Android), 4 or 5% of desktops depending on whether you count ChromeOS. Desktop share is a few percent higher if you just count gaming PCs, eg. the Steam survey, since it’s more widely used at home than on business machines.
The rate of adoption is accelerating, too - slowly but steadily.
That’s very strange… it was reported at 4-5% last year too wasn’t it. Rico, why is it the same percentage as then and why is the acceleration still slow?
2023/4 was steam but it was also before Microsoft started losing their mind thinking forcing people into AI would just blow over.
I expect 2026 will have a couple more percent as a load of people are trying to escape and some of them will make it.
why is the acceleration still slow?
There’s no marketing
Fear. Linux used to be a lot more complicated. It has a reputation. Windows is still far better at getting you to a gui if you really fuck it up. Checkpoints on updates and safe mode save a lot of peoples bacon.
Game performance is still markedly slower, and anti-cheat titles are unplayable.
Games are getting better, ease to install is getting better. Title availability is slowly getting better, but a lot of it is electron, so the titles themselves are getting worse. Wine/Proton is amazing and improving every day.
100% of supercomputers, 80% of mobile devices (as Android), 4 or 5% of desktops depending on whether you count ChromeOS. Desktop share is a few percent higher if you just count gaming PCs, eg. the Steam survey, since it’s more widely used at home than on business machines.
The rate of adoption is accelerating, too - slowly but steadily.
That’s very strange… it was reported at 4-5% last year too wasn’t it. Rico, why is it the same percentage as then and why is the acceleration still slow?
2023/4 was steam but it was also before Microsoft started losing their mind thinking forcing people into AI would just blow over.
I expect 2026 will have a couple more percent as a load of people are trying to escape and some of them will make it.
There’s no marketing
Fear. Linux used to be a lot more complicated. It has a reputation. Windows is still far better at getting you to a gui if you really fuck it up. Checkpoints on updates and safe mode save a lot of peoples bacon.
Game performance is still markedly slower, and anti-cheat titles are unplayable.
Games are getting better, ease to install is getting better. Title availability is slowly getting better, but a lot of it is electron, so the titles themselves are getting worse. Wine/Proton is amazing and improving every day.