Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
  • uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    2 days ago

    This is really market share against Microsoft, not Mac. For good reason too, Microsoft is working very hard to ruin their company. They’re losing a lot of ground to Mac as well, especially in the small business sector where many things are web based now anyways. Run an MSP and we’ve had quite a few clients get fed up with inconsistent updates and repeated dumb problems… looking at you WSD and printing.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      They went from 98% to 70%

      70% is a lot but the completion is starting to slowly gain up. If companies like Google and Apple made something good Microsoft would be in serious trouble.

      • Mio@feddit.nu
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Apple did by releasing ARM based CPUs for desktop. This means they also change to MAC OS. Hence no longer 98% market share.

        Now the future is ARM, desktop, laptop and mobile. Windows have hard time bringing over all their legacy software over to ARM. Their legacy compability is their biggest strength that they now have to get rid of or rebuild.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      Oh don’t worry. Apple has been working very hard on enshitifyjng their OS. They just don’t get reported on as much as Microsoft.

      • salacious_coaster@infosec.pubEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        I worked for an MSP that supported an all-Mac environment. Got real tired of telling people that their problem was a well-known bug in Mac that Apple has ignored for over 10 years and would probably never be fixed. I had to give that explanation a lot, for many different issues.

        At least with Windows people expect problems like that. Mac people refuse to believe anything could possibly be Apple’s fault.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          I had a Mac user chew me out for putting on a non-Apple mouse that JUST DOESN’T WORK ON MAC!!!1! Found out that he’d used the non-Apple mouse fine for about a month, then changed his desk to one with a glass top, and wasn’t using a mousepad. So the laser just shot through the clear glass and did fuck-all. Didn’t even have the decency to look abashed when I tossed a magazine down as a mousepad for him until we could get him some artist-approved mousepad bullshit. Fucking ad agencies are full of twats.