It's been a long time since the beginning of each year you hear something like this will be the year of Linux on the desktop. And no, it has never been fulfilled. But in early 2020, around March, we started to see something strange: the Linux market share came to double, or even go further. Although experience had taught us to remain skeptical, we did get the impression that something was changing ... until September.
According to data obtained by Net Marketshare, Linux has fallen from 2.69% market share to 1.47% in less than a month. These users have ended up on Windows and macOS, Microsoft's systems, which is installed by default on most PCs, and Apple, which can only be used officially on their Macs. Seeing this drop, or more specifically comparing it with the rise and when did it occur, we have to ask ourselves: what happened?
The explanation: Linux could be used more at home
As we have explained, to imagine what has happened in the last few months we have to observe when the first changes occurred. The surge or the "superboom" took place from March to April, just when practically everyone was confined by the coronavirus pandemic. That could mean that there are many users who prefer to use Linux when they are at home with their computers, but who use Windows in their offices.
But the most surprising thing we see if we add rules to the analyzes. And is that for example Fedora has maintained its market share in recent months, but Ubuntu has risen and fallen. In fact, it seems that the person responsible for all these variations is the operating system developed by Canonical, which we must not forget that it is available in its main version and 7 official flavors.
In any case, the Linux market share continues, or is again, below the 2%, which is far from 10% of macOS and almost 90% of Windows. Even if it is expected that in 2027 we will rise to 20%, I will continue to remain skeptical.
and who cares?
polls and statistics are made to manipulate, everyone wearing what they want and everyone happy
It may be necessary for people to know that Windows is used for spying as well.
Nobody cares if they spy on it, if they do not develop a graphical environment in GNU that is truly comfortable like windows or mac or chrome os, if of course it has many graphical things but at the end of the day the graphical functionalities of systems with GNU have many bugs (Which I always find quickly when I try to see if a distro gives me the worst size even with intel graphics that should work better) and somehow or other I have to turn to who? to the console, everything free always has its cost on the other hand, the only ones who have developed truly respectable graphical environments for the linux kernel have been for-profit companies like google, rest until the followers of stallman have no good goals defined when developing a distribution and don't understand that the vast majority of non-techies don't want to use a console at all, linux will still be the king of anything, but it will still be last on the scale when it comes to systems. desk.
Wait like in 2017 it will rise to 20% ,? We are in 2020!
Almost all remote work platforms are on Windows, but I think that market is losing ground.
Says 2027
I've had Linux at home for 4 years, Windows didn't even look at it, the problem has come with teleworking, as Mena says, in my work center they have Windows and the connection platform is only designed for Windows and Internet Explorer, we are in the Jurassic !!
Everyone knows what is happening except Linux. Thousands and hundreds of distros. But none make efforts to improve the native applications that are Miles according to several of the distro. That makes me tired of linux. If 20 distros are grouped into 1 single they would get the best of them there if I would return but there is a lot of selfishness among those who hold this free code to join
What happens is simple to understand, I spent several months testing the more than 100 Linux distros, 95 were more of the same. The things that seemed most absurd to me is that the same eternal problem with broken packages continues, it is true that investigating it can be solved, but it is something that at this point should not happen, it should be solved automatically every time it is installed or uninstalled something. In addition, the other eternal problem of the Drivers, even to install a video capture device or a Wifi network receiver device is a real headache, it is still a complicated system for basic things, the drivers of printers, graphics cards, etc., no have the same options and functionality as for windows, insufficient support for D3D and Win32-64 applications, linux is still far from being able to offer a complete experience in entertainment and hardware support
I always say that Linux is great, for browsing, writing emails, listening to music, and for the office,…. and for nothing else
Picture?
Sound?
Video?
it's like comparing a ferrari with a car
but believe me, the car is nice if you don't go sailing, write emails, listen to music and for the office ...
It would give the feeling that users, being at home and having a little more free time, decided to try new operating systems on their PCs, especially Ubuntu (it would have to be seen with which desktops), and now, back to the "normal" movement »And work routines, that systems test is over. In the end they were left with Windows for their work and nothing else, as before the confinement.
I don't know who might like to use this operating system. To make a simple screenshot or cut an image with a drawing program, you have to look at hundreds of tutorials. What is done as easy in windows as capturing a screen and automatically having it on the clipboard is an odyssey in linux.
Completely agree, very poorly developed linux distributions in terms of accessibility, usability and other ethical things in the field of development, and that is the problem GNU / linux fans and developers only see things from their own eyes and it seems that neither They understand that 99% of people want everything easy and beautiful, the graphical options of the most beautiful Linux distributions are unstable and then it is time to resort to the terminal, someone ordinary can live with such a system? I do not think so, I am tired of seeing people and companies throw some Linux distribution to the trash due to lack of usability, accessibility and rare bugs, the truth is that they are still far from approaching the ease of Mac Osx, Chrome OS and the so hated Windows with update and spying problems, but after years of testing all systems on decent computers I understand and know the reasons why someone ordinary would not use a GNU / linux distribution, not everyone is a techie to search solutions to simple problems in other OS with a few clicks, solved.