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    [–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 69 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Growth is being driven a lot by the Steam Deck.

    [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 9 months ago

    This is mostly from browser stats though.

    Sure, you can browse on it, but I wouldn't have thought it enough to skew the numbers in any meaningful way.

    [–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

    Time to Sort the Steam Deck out like ChromeOS, then the Linux market goes back to 2%?

    Right? RIGHT?

    [–] sploosh@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    School districts buy Chromebooks by the thousands. Steam Deck is definitely paving the way in terms of demonstrating a consumer use case for Linux, but I would be shocked if there are even 1/100th the number of them in the wild as there are Chromebooks.

    [–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 25 points 9 months ago

    ChromeOS is listed in a separate category.

    [–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I have a deck, a few old laptops that have all gone Linux now, and a windows desktop for gaming. The deck being so good, and Windows 11 being so bad, has nearly convinced me to try Linux on the actual desktop.

    I think there are still a few games and applications (I'm primarily a C# dev for work) that I "need" Windows for but the case for dropping as much MS from my life as possible has never been stronger.

    [–] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

    I do C# dev for work also but use Linux. You'll have to use Rider for Visual Studio and Datagrip for Sql Server Management Studio. Only drawback I have is that Edit and Continue only works on dotnet > 8.0.

    You might need to do a tiny bit of extra support for the launchsettings.json since you'll need to launch with kestrel server instead of IIS Express.

    Legacy dotnet will need an old Ubuntu/Whatever so some docker knowledge may be required since MS didn't release a snap/flatpak of dotnet yet. 🖕

    I use Linux for gaming and dev with a highly customized KDE+bash setup and I love it. :)

    [–] Mo5560@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

    I can't speak for everyone but I used to say "I can't drop windows because I need XYZ programs all the time".

    Well turns out I don't, and turns out it's surprisingly easy to tell my employer (well my professor really, I am a PhD student) "Sorry I can't run that program, I don't have windows". If they don't accept it, they can supply me with a windows PC.