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.
The year of the Linux desktop isn’t as interesting anymore. It all sort of works good enough for most people not to need to care now.
What we need is the year of the Linux phone. And it think that we will have to still wait a long time for it. And no, Google/Linux does not count.