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| ▲ | pawelduda a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I installed Ubuntu on my parents' PC back in 2014. Never had to reinstall, only had to upgrade to LTS every few years. The only problems I encountered were with nvidia drivers on update that had to be dealt with but nothing too insane. It's been used almost daily, only migrated to SSD at one point to speed it up. 18~ years old machine. | |
| ▲ | ahartmetz a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm not particularly surprised anymore to see Linux on people's laptops in public, usually while travelling (you don't usually see people using laptops in public much otherwise). That is mostly in Germany where I live. Linux is, of course, also very common in universities. | | |
| ▲ | Fade_Dance a day ago | parent [-] | | The article is on the US statistic though. If it was a global statistic it wouldn't surprise me at all. When it comes to laptops, we have a lot of MacBooks out there, and an endless Sea of $400 low quality Lenovos and HPs eternally marching to the garbage bins. Ultimately my observation is just anecdotal, but I have built a lot of computers for people worked on a lot of family PCS, etc, and have never once worked with a Linux system in that context in 25 years of doing that stuff. I'm not interacting with a tech oriented crowd though (obviously those people would be chatting about tech instead and I would never be touching their system). Perhaps the tech oriented crowd is big enough to hit 5%, or perhaps Linux gaming is moving the needle, but I can't imagine 1 in 20 system is Linux in the US. I just can't. | | |
| ▲ | ahartmetz a day ago | parent | next [-] | | FWIW, statcounter is showing 5.49% for Germany - which seems more plausible to me than 5% for the US, but whatever. | |
| ▲ | Zigurd a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | 20 years ago my kids were getting hand-me-down work laptops with Linux installed on them. Apart from their peers thinking that they must be in some kind of cult, it did the job of keeping them much safer from malware. Linux has been very usable for a long time. Windows 11, being deliberately unusable on older hardware that works perfectly well is enough incentive for more people to try an alternative. That's not going to move the needle in corporate IT but it's enough for a couple percentage points of the installed base. | | |
| ▲ | iLoveOncall a day ago | parent [-] | | > Windows 11, being deliberately unusable on older hardware that works perfectly well is enough incentive for more people to try an alternative The extreme majority of users doesn't care about that, they'll stay on Windows 10, they don't give a single fuck about the fact that it'll stop receiving security updates. | | |
| ▲ | Zigurd a day ago | parent [-] | | The people who manage your work PC of course won't migrate away from Windows just because of Windows 11. But home users faced with a few hundred dollars of hardware replacement will probably consider a less expensive alternative. That might be just letting it rot. But it also might be ubuntu, mint, or Chrome OS | | |
| ▲ | iLoveOncall a day ago | parent [-] | | That's literally my point. Home users don't give a crap about the fact that their OS isn't supported anymore. |
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| ▲ | fsflover a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I installed Linux for my non-technial relatives and they happily browse the web and use LibreOffice. | |
| ▲ | CalRobert a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | My wife works at a Dutch company where they all run Ubuntu (mostly because they’re frugal) |
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