Linux has managed to cross another major milestone, according to new statistics from statcounter.com that show how the 32-year-old, open-source OS now enjoys a worldwide market share of over 4%—4.03%, based on February’s numbers, to be exact. Linux’s last milestone was in June 2023, when it passed 3% desktop market share.
Linux’s market share over the past year:
- February 2024: 4.03%
- January 2024: 3.77%
- December 2023: 3.83%
- November 2023: 3.22%
- October 2023: 2.92%
- September 2023: 3.02%
- August 2023: 3.18%
- July 2023: 3.12%
- June 2023: 3.07%
- May 2023: 2.7%
- April 2023: 2.83%
- March 2023: 2.85%
February 2024 numbers, with Windows leading at 72.13%:
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Join Discussion →I wonder if Steam Deck helped with that.
These days I dual-boot both Windows and Linux. I used to main Windows and just f*ck around with Linux (since the mid 2000s), but now I main Linux and use Windows as a secondary OS.
I have a feeling.whwt helped with this is broadcom changing licensing for VMware so a lot of enterprises are more dedicatedly trying Linux open source virtual hosting software. I intend to with some hosts I'm going to retire.
I've been mainly using QEMU/KVM for my VM needs. Back in the 2000s I used VirtualBox, but in the future I intend to mess around with GPU passthrough, so at some point I'm gonna finally mess with VMWare. I ain't paying them sh1t though.
This is the year Linux takes over... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Linux is the diesel truck of OSes.
We are looking at proxmox now