Normies use the preinstalled OS, so it isn't mainstream on >90% of desktops
Austin Stewart
>4% Don't get too crazy there
James Phillips
Most people use desktops for fairly mundane stuff and don't have the time or will to switch from vendor provided windows
Sure they aren't the target audience of Linux but even then I think it will eventually encompass them, with Linux itself having quite passable office apps etc.
Ayden Lewis
Hasn't even come close to happening in 20+ years. I don't see it happening any time soon.
Henry Harris
>It is mainstream in hobby computing >It is rather mainstream in programing and development Neither of these is true. They use Windows.
Also, Windows is gaining ground for servers...
Carter Jackson
Stuff like SBCs almost always involve Linux, and clearly distros like ubuntu are widely used by developers
Juan Ramirez
>Windows is gaining ground for servers imagine >Jow Forums is running on windows now >browsing Jow Forums as usual >suddenly server cannot be accessed >on the server side >Please wait... Windows is updating
Xavier James
>People say Linux isn't mainstream but.. They mean "hardcore" linux, android is everywhere
Tyler Myers
>citation needed
Carter Diaz
No they use MacOS if they don't use Linux pajeet. And windows server is not gaining in use. Why do you think Microsoft is opening up their products to be used on Linux also? They need to make money.
Adam Wood
>it will eventually encompass them Google is abandoning both ChromeOS and Android. So Linux development will slow down. It will again fall to 1% desktop use.
Jose Garcia
A good point
Nathaniel Allen
Every android run with a linux kernel. There is more people playing in cellphones than in computers, this mean that linux is top in gaymens too.
Doesn't matter how many people use it as long as it works well enough for me (which it does) After all, even 2% of the desktop market is a lot of people, and a lot of that 2% is power users, devs, sysadmins, etc. so things tend to be fairly well supported.
Levi Bailey
>212 participants Nice try rajeesh. Easy to skew results by surveying certain companies. I work for a Forbes 250 company and every server is Linux.
Blake Parker
Perfect system is a Windows host running loonix vms
Isaac Jones
>androfagg Ohhh god, no. I only use my cellphone to wake me and play music. I don't even have gaymens installed.
Wyatt Nguyen
Care to explain why Microsoft has so much bigger profits from operating systems then, faget?
>2011 Nice try rajinsh. Here's a (You). Have you also considered the preinstalled windows that every computer in a store has that is part of the price?
Gavin Lewis
Microsoft essentially ensures only they have the ability to properly fix and service their server OS to the fullest extent, as is with more propreitary software
Caleb Carter
except windows server doesn't update outside of critical security updates of course someone who hasn't worked a day in their life wouldn't know that