| ▲ | Loughla 3 hours ago | |
The fall of windows and Linux gaining traction. I've seen that written on here, Reddit, /., digg, hell even on usenet back in the day. . . . | ||
| ▲ | kace91 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yes, but have you seen you real life non tech friends move to Linux? I’m seeing it now, and this is new. | ||
| ▲ | LorenDB 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
And yet it's undeniable that 2025 had some of the biggest Linux hype in recent times: - Windows 10 went EOL and triggered a wave of people moving to Linux to escape Windows 11 - DHH's adventures in Linux inspired a lot of people (including some popular coding streamers/YouTubers) to try Linux - Pewdiepie made multiple videos about switching to Linux and selfhosting - Bazzite reported serving 1 PB of downloads in one month - Zorin reported 1M downloads of ZorinOS 18 in one month and crossed the 2M threshold in under 3 months - I personally recall seeing a number of articles from various media outlets of writers trying Linux and being pretty impressed with how good it was - And don't forget Valve announced the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, which will both run Linux and have a ton of hype around them In fact, I think that we will look back in 5 or 10 years and point at 2025 as the turning point for Linux on the desktop. | ||