I just ditched my old Windows 10 PC for a raspberry pi 5, and am running KDE Plasma.

It's refreshing to have an operating system that doesn't suggestive sell to me.

If adobe would be willing to port its creative suite to linux that number would increment faster

Very cool. I wonder how much the steam deck helped in this push

I'M DOING MY PART!

Garuda for gaming and Silverblue for work.

What a great news.

it would be very interesting also the kids had some aknowledge on school about linux, besides windows. Would be open mind to get new apprentices. Besides that, for the normal human being/worker, who only uses PC for internet and office, linux can be taken into account, since it is open source.

I know linux is harder to learn than windows for an average joe, but I guess teaching kids with two OS (windows and linux) give to them more capacity too choose and give them more software/hardware skills

(Im not using linux rn just because imo windows is more stable to edit videos, but in the future, is probably to return to the pinguin)

(Sry about my bad english)

Nice, at this pace we'll reach 50% in less than 50 years!

https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

Considering their methodology, I wonder how many of these are Steam Decks registering as "desktops" when they visit a website in the web broweser?

if we add chromeOS to it which is also linux we have more than 5 percent. The future is ours.

I'm one of the converts. Didn't like Windows 11 at all, decided to try Ubuntu/Zorin before going back to 10 and ended up staying. I've tried various distros many times over the past ~15 years but it never felt "ready" to me until now.

Just made the switch at the end of December alongside making my new PC. Feels very refreshing to actually be in control of my own computer. I’ve barely run into any issues gaming either, which is a welcome surprise - Proton remains one of the best things Valve has ever done.

This is the year I'm porting my family to Linux. Starting this summer!

Windows 11 has irked me on my main laptop. I still use it due to various applications (not just games) that require Windows, but the slowness of the OS and the tracking drive me away from it. I installed Linux on another drive on the laptop.

Additionally, I purchased a desktop from my friend, and completely wiped Windows from it to install Linux (KDE Neon). I realized there is nothing that I'd want from that desktop, possibly aside from a couple of games my more powerful laptop can run, that Linux cannot run.

Nice, lets keep the moment going. Another great year for Linux and open source.