• Captain_Wtv@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Idk the market share has at least quadruped from a measly 1% to 4% on the desktop/laptop. If you add ChromeOS, which is also a flavor of Linux (with limitations and Google apps), I believe it’s like 6-7% market share. It’s basically near the 10% of MacOS in the 2010s. I would say we have moved along well.

    Steam Deck is a great financial incentive with 5M+ users.

    And Linux can run most Windows apps and work with pretty much all hardware. Everyone but apple codes hardware support for linux. The only time there are hardware issues is if you’re on an old kernel (version) and you want to buy the latest hardware at sale and that’s a minority of people. Like everything but the desktop (and half of mobile) runs on Linux. Idk where the hardware point came from. Idk why you invent stuff when there are downsides to Linux already, which is the confusing information on what to choose and the terminal. That and some windows apps don’t work but they are the minority.

    Most people genuinely only need a web browser.

    As for android apps, they can run on Linux using Waydroid. Idk why this point is here, since even Windows won’t have Android apps after next year.