We get it, it hit 4%

It did take like 20 years to reach 3 percent and now we're at 4 so I think it's alright to be excited.

Look....I use Linux. I love Linux. But let's be honest. That 4 percent is largely due to the steam deck; a gaming handheld where the vast majority of users don't know (or care) what operating system it uses as long as they can play their steam games on the go.

That's not "year of the Linux desktop", because it's not a desktop. It just has one hidden under the hood if you want to dig past the steam layer (which, as I said...the vast majority of users never will)

The year of the Linux desktop won't arrive until there is sufficient market share that software manufacturers are inclined to support us natively. That won't happen with a gaming handheld because no one would want to use a gaming handheld as a daily driver.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, folks. Downvote away....

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We got it? Nice... Gotta go and make a meme about it.

Every year is the year of the linux desktop. It's just that most don't know it yet.

every year since 2022 is the year of the Linux desktop. get used to it nerd

Yesterday my school principal decided to install Debian on all the school computers, lol.

Let me make this simple for everyone. There's only a real metric for "the year of the desktop Linux" and that's whenever Microsoft and Adobe release full featured versions of all their products for Linux. Not slimmed down web versions, no emulation/virtualization/-insert.hack- BS.

Get used it the idea, I know it hurts, but it's true.

For me, the year of the Linux desktop was nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell - er, no, I mean 2017 is when I switched all my computers to Linux.

You'll lose your shit when it hits 5%

We finally hopped ship this year. Some small bs antifeature finally pissed us off enough to (gasp) learn something new and now I can't find my way out of Vim.

Damn, a lot of people bought Steam Decks.

I'm just waiting for windows 12. If reports are to be believed, it's going to be a subscription cloud OS, probably with a thin client. If they really go through with that, then I can imagine linux gaining some ground in 2026 when windows 11 hits EOL.

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Upvote for Jimmy Neutron meme

Linux desktop and fusion energy have something in common, it seems.

To forestall the year 2038 problem maybe we could just start reckoning time based on years of the linux desktop.

Today is 06 March 33 YLD

Yeah, everyone knows the year of Linux will be in +∞

The year of the Linux desktop is long ago, but this year definitely will be the year of Linux mobile

Dont you get it? Every year is the year of linux.

The combined number of years of my marriage and the ages of all of my children is a number that when subtracted from 2024 would not equal the first time I heard this.

Contrary to the idea that most of these new users come from steam decks, I've had 3 of my friends switch to or at least partially use linux. We are certainly growing.

i'll switch 100% to linux when Logitech supports my steering wheel.

While I love the meme, Linux is doing pretty good recently

wasnt it a year of Linux desktop ? It after all grow by ~25% (~3% => ~4%) in a year - thats really considerable growth by every measure...