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My switch is.
Same. I’d have stayed on Windows if Microsoft had just not been so determined to make using the OS so dreadful while also harvesting my personal data.
I’m curious about work vs home use too. I’m guessing if you take out computers where Microsoft is mandated, it’d be more of a stark difference
Workplaces are all about the apps. If those apps you need only run in Windows, that’s what you run. Believe me, businesses would LOVE to cut license costs.
Been a Linux user for 20+ years but windows WAS my daily driver the last 5 of them… got fed up with all the ads and plans for the screen recording and pulled the plug. Linux 100% for me again!
I was getting a couple of pop up ads in my Win10 install, and I switched a couple of months ago. The more I looked at gaming, the more I realized it could be done.
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I have seen people switch to linux or dualboot just because minecraft, a game owned by microsoft, works so much better on linux compared to windows
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The reason it runs better is
- Lower cpu overhead on linux
- Better opengl drivers on linux
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Bedrock can be modded and has a lot of tools to do so(as far as i know, i dont play it)
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On linux, it is much faster for both vanilla and modded minecraft
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Minecraft bedrock edition can be played on linux using third party launchers
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That’s funny, my friend tried to get mc working on linux and it kept flickering white. Wayland moment? Nvidia moment? Who knows
I want to know who the fuck is gaming on FreeBSD and how.
Who’s saying anything about gaming in that image?
Aha, you’re right!
In my defense, i posted at midnight, without my glasses =P
The comments on this article might lead to good info.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-FreeBSD-2021
I expect a lot is possible if Wine and good Vulkan drivers are available.
This guy shows how to get Steam up and running:
Yup, I used to use FreeBSD and it worked okay. When I used it, the Nvidia drivers were better than AMD, but I don’t know if the FOSS AMD drivers have been ported to FreeBSD.
You can theoretically run Linux programs (such as Steam) on the BSDs. And I am pretty sure that there are some open source games on BSD too. Only tried it a few times tho.
Edit: and there’s a WINE version for FreeBSD aswell.
I tried it once a decade ago and uh, no luck whatsoever lol.
At least when I tried, it was easier to get Windows Steam to work than Linux Steam. Maybe the Linuxulator has improved since then.
FreeBSD Nvidia drivers have a similar set of features compared to Linux drivers, there is also a Linux compat layer on FreeBSD.
Known unknown(s) at 7.14% and rising over the Linux stat. Could these also be Linux and perhaps BSD desktops?
We don’t know
I’ll imagine that there is a rising tide of Amiga desktops then.
That’s TempleOS.
At this rate by 2038 windows will be at 50% market share and by 2069 it’ll be at 0%.
Mac is at ~20% and quite well known already, so maybe 20% is the market share where even commoners (non-tech folk) will know of linux and use it. Still have a ways to go folks…
How that was calculated
- Export the data into CSV from the historical chart
- Change the date to an index starting at 0
- copy into https://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/linear2/
- Copy formula into desmos (replace “X” with “x”)
- Add
x*0 + 50andx*0to find the points where 50% and 0% are reached - Use datetime calculator and just add the number of months to 2009-01-01
There’s probably a better tool, but a 5 minute search didn’t find one for me 🤷
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