Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

Home had 4 windows machines a year ago. Now 1 windows machine, a raspberry pi, and 4 linux machines… reckon theres still a real move under the data. Ai may be part but its not all or most.

Here’s the truth of the matter. As a server, Linux runs the show. As a desktop, Linux is basically little league.

There is some growth, but it’s not people getting fed up with microsoft. The real growth comes from Valve.

Despite it’s apperance, SteamOS is considered a linux desktop, and it’s driving growth on linux. I don’t think it’s up to 10%, considering 2 years ago it was at an all time high of 4%. But I can believe it’s at 6%. And even that would be considered tremendous growth. 4% in 30 years, but 2% more in 2 more years? That’s huge.

I keep seeing the same story about linux. People are gaming on steamos, or bazzite, and they have to keep a windows installation on the other partition because select games have anti-cheat that 100% does not work on linux.

But here’s the better news. Console games are dying.

The people I’ve spoken to in real life (outside of Reddit and fediverse bubbles) are more interested in France changing their systems to Linux of all things, which rather surprised me. In their minds, that move gave it a lot of legitimacy.

Linux needs to change from “scary thing that sounds hard” to “easy thing that just works”. If more big names adopt it that will help a lot. Projects like ZorinOS are also a great bridge.