Well, it’s big and great relative to what it used to be. But it’s still pretty limited compared to Windows. As an example, about 40% of my Steam library runs in Linux natively or officially supported by Proton. Another 20% runs ok enough through Proton, though not officially supported. That leaves 40% that I’m rebooting to windows to play. And, of course, that game I’m most playing right now is one of those.
60% of my library running in Linux is amazing compared to what it used to be, but still isn’t enough to convince a serious gamer to switch.
Mainly non tech university students. I remember seeing most of the baristas humanities and business students using them. Mainly to look trendy and also they have crazy battery life.
Ideally you use linux for tech, but MacOS is a close second as it’s also based on Unix, which makes it operate similarly to Linux. It’s a valid choice, and better than windows in most cases still.
The only reason I have windows home computer is gaming. Otherwise I would prefer Mac. Things just work there. Windows in last few years improved significantly, but still is not there. In all years I was using Mac, I had zero problems. But even with windows 11 I sometimes have to fight things like “why my computer does not go to automatic sleep”
I never used a mac, but if you want to have a machine that just works, you have the coin and are not power User enough, that the wierd quirks annoy you, Mac could be for you.
Don’t get me wrong but Windows sucks for non computer people. Mac’s have the “do not bother me I do not care” options.
Additionally a lot of creative stuff is focused on mac’s. Music, photography, design is at least optimized if not sometimes exclusive for osx.
And do not forget that if you want to have devices that “just work” and you do not care how or why, having all apple devices must be nice. No compatibility tinkering, seamless backups and transfers, etc. Things get better now on other systems but try explaining an older tech illiterate person over phone how to get her photos from the phone to her notebook…
This is through summer and universities break. Its fair to expect a higher increase through the last Quarter of the year and probably surpassing ChromeOS with 3.24%
I disagree. I think ChromeOS will increase further and Linux will decrease. This is calculated via browser agents. Upon return to school, the school Chromebooks will be utilised again, meaning an invrease for ChromeOS and a decrease for Linux marketshare.
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