Why people keep flocking to Linux in 2025 (and it's not just to escape Windows)
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By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap.

In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely.

In addition, ChromeOS comes in at 3.67%, which strikes me as much too low. Leaving that aside, ChromeOS is a Linux variant. It just uses the Chrome web browser for its interface rather than KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, or another Linux desktop environment. Put all these together, and you get a Linux desktop market share of 11.37%. Now we’re talking.

    • steeznson@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      It uses the gentoo package manager as part of it’s bootstrapping process when new versions of it are being built but the final product doesn’t have any gentoo functionality

    • notthebees@reddthat.com
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      2 days ago

      I’m a liar that lies. It’s moving to Android now. But for the past 15 years it was Linux. Mainly Gentoo.