Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines
arstechnica.com
Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.

  • baseless_discourseEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, microsoft making outlook worse and worse every year sends me to thunderbird. And thunderbird suck on Windows, so I finally switched back to linux after years of using windows (I switched to windows when Windows 10 released).

    I am surprised that linux is pretty usable at this point, much better than 7 years ago. I feel much more productive in gnome than on Windows at this point.

    • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      What kind of things got worse with outlook? I still use it for work, and the ui has changed, sure, but still seems to do everything it used to. In fact, the progressive web app even works quite well on linux!

      • baseless_discourseEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I am referring to the email client preinstalled with windows, not the office 365 version. MS adds ad to it and dramatically changed the UI (I forgot what problem I encountered with the new UI), that drives me towards thunderbird.

        • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Ahh, gotcha. Last I saw it was called Windows Live Mail and was already just suuuper basic. I am kind of impressed they managed to make it worse haha

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I am surprised that linux is pretty usable at this point, much better than 7 years ago.

      While I’m surprised it’s still usable at this point, with all the enthusiasm about things ending it, but still not as good as 7 years ago for me.

      The year of the Linux desktop was 2011.