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Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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I'm personally gonna call it,
2026 is legitimately the year of desktop Linux
Microsoft's fucked around with their users to a considerable degree that 10% happened this soon.
Fuck Microslop, Long Live Linux
I don't think there will a "year" of the Linux desktop. The climb to take over will take more than a year. A "Decade of the Linux Desktop" seems more apt and I think this is it. 2020-2030 will be this change. SteamOS and Proton has bridged the Gaming gap and entry level for average users so well and it's only going to get better.
Exactly, there was a huge change in attitude and since then every year is a year of the linux desktop
Despite having used it in the past, never ran Linux main. This year will be the first time ever, nervous but exciting. M$ really pushed hard enough that I don't want to bother with another Windows (started at 3.1).
What is the exact qualification in order to be called "the year of the Linux desktop"? I have been using Linux on my desktop computer(s) for almost two decades. Was my year of the Linux desktop this year also?
@victorz @recursive_recursion When it is on more PCs than either Windows or iOS.
Is that a universally held definition?
@victorz I think the Klingons and Ferengi are having doubts, but it will do for me!
For me, it's when Linux was a viable desktop operating system to daily drive and still be fairly compatible with other operating systems, which was ages ago.
@victorz For me, that was 1993. But I always took 'year of the desktop' to allude to the time when it became popular with other people.
I feel like 50% market share is a bit steep. I think we're well past the point where anyone can and should be running Linux on the desktop.
The possibility of it is there, and that's good enough for me, to be honest. Saying it's not the year until we already have dominance I feel is a bit too much to ask.
But I guess it's about ambition. Do we want to include the downfall of Apple and Microsoft into this? Then we'll have to wait a long time, and work very hard.
2026 is my year of the NetBSD laptop