It seems to have plateaued and increasing more slowly. Combining data from Steam and Statcounter reveals this:
The year of the Linux desktop: any year now for the past 10 years.
I’m waiting for the day someone who isn’t a nerd and regularly uses Linux.
plateaued since when? if you look at the second half of the graph, 2022 forward, it looks more steep to me.
I take it ‘geometric mean’ is the geometric mean of ‘statcounter’ and ‘steam’? What’s the specific source of those latter two measures? For instance, when I look at linux usage on the statcounter website I get more like 1.5%, not 4%.
Yes, GNU/Linux has a slow steady growth. Windows had >90% market share in 2009, now it has around 72%. Of course, some went to Mac, but many people to gnu/linux, too.
