KDE overspent by 100K €, Linux keeps growing, Ubuntu upgrade issues: Linux & Open Source News

[@TheLinuxEXP]

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[@adnanalam6201]

Hey nick, which app are you using to create the presentation ?

[@MrGamelover23]

Linux users don't even like fortnite, plus the anticheat on linux is useless because it only runs at user level.

[@RagnarinVa]

Believe it or not Linux is now approachable by users who need a computer for browsing, email, light document creation, photos, to do lists and music. A linux desktop can do that in spades, do it cheaply and is super easy to maintain and upgrade now. Modern distros are easy to install and maintain - this is one of the largest user demographics for desktops. The growth in Linux in response to craptacular Windows movements (privacy grape) and the expense of MacOS systems - makes Linux and easy go to.

[@jedipadawan7023]

I keep hitting Window fanbois on YT who insist this is IMPOSSIBLE and Linux is (still) all about the terminal, typing commands and having to spend days getting wifi to work. There's no moving them. It's crazy!

[@PatrikKron]

@@jedipadawan7023sometimes it’s sadly is. But most if the time it just works (and often more consistant than windows (mostly due to the computer slowing down while windows updates are installed in background)). I recently got a new computer that would not work with any wifi 6 networks. And with a glitching screen when scrolling on webpages. The first issue was resolved by installing a non default kernel.

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@@jedipadawan7023I mean, if you're using Broadcom Wi-Fi (like on Intel Macs), it's a giant PITA to get working, and until recently, Nvidia was too, but it's not like you don't have to use the command-line to run chkdsk or system file checker on Windows, and of course, assuming your computer is "worthy of running Windows 11" officially.

[@ghosthunter0950]

​​@@jedipadawan7023currently the main issue is just some compatibility and certain software alternatives. But if you're not in a company or have these professional software use cases then there is no excuse really.

[@kolz4ever1980]

​@@ghosthunter0950yeah.. "some software"... 😂

[@teachingthecode4651]

Everyone thinks teaching is easy until they have to do it and meet real learning objectives. I wish you well in your teaching endeavor!

[@SIMULATAN]

meanwhile my school only managed to release the time tables 3 days before us starting

[@kuhluhOG]

@@SIMULATAN I know (trade) schools where they only actually start doing that a few days before since a LOT of people (or companies if it's done by them) only register themselves less than a week beforehand...

[@SIMULATAN]

@@kuhluhOG afaik there's a cutoff some time before july even, people may fail a class in the autmn (special exam deciding their future) but they didn't even take place yet but we have a timetable so surely thats not it?

[@kuhluhOG]

@@SIMULATAN the cutoff time heavily depends on the school (and type of school) for some it's literally the day before it starts

[@Gomba-b5b]

​@@SIMULATANLOL my old high school only released them on the first day

[@cptfarzkizz8823]

Im sorry, i donated 3 $ a month to kde that contributed to their overspending. Im sorry! 😭😜

[@cameronbosch1213]

I donate €5 or €6 quarterly (four times a year) to KDE. I'm quite proud of it, even if it's just a little bit, every little bit helps!

[@matti...]

should have spent that hard earned money on peanut m&m's every month instead

[@cameronbosch1213]

@@matti... I hate peanut M&Ms.

[@matti...]

@@cameronbosch1213 i was talking to cptfarzkizz8823

[@JustCW2]

​@@cameronbosch1213xD

[@matheusrosa94]

The fact that Tim Sweeney compared switching from Windows to Linux to moving from the US to Canada when a someone you don't like is elected president tells you they have little excuses to not porting to Linux, or at least allow Fortnite to run on it.

[@appleleptiker]

Didn't he once even say that Fortnite on Linux won't happen because he doesn't like Linux? Either way, what does Epic do besides UE which works for Linux and Easy Anti-Cheat which also works for Linux if Devs enable it?

[@Psychx_]

Regarding KDE - holding on to cash reserves that are too large also isn't good long-term due to inflation. The money can enable more dev work now then it can do later. Efficient use of resources matters.

[@jthoward]

They also aren't allowed to keep it as a nonprofit organization

[@lukadjo]

The Wikimedia foundation has a ton of money, and they've invested a bunch of it as well ​@@jthoward

[@jerbid_]

Can confirm about the linux marketshare thing, my main laptop is old and definitely NOT for gaming, yet it has stayed my main productivity device on Linux Mint for a couple years now. It just works, and I've had no reason to go back to Windows on it. Only have it on my desktop specifically for VR gaming, otherwise it's kinda useless to me lol. Also good luck with the teaching gig!

[@hockdudu]

VR gaming on Linux is a hit or miss, most of the time a miss. I have a Valve Index and the experience is bearable. Many features are missing and game support for VR games is even worse then normal games. But I prefer this than to use Widows again 😂

[@Tekay37]

The growth curve we're seeing for linux will most likely end up being a sigmoid curve. Let's just hope the curve will bring Linux up to 10-15% so developers start shipping native Linux versions of their products.

[@raphaelkyembe4407]

I'm hoping Russia and China can adopt Linux so that they can provide some developers.

[@deafpolygon]

@@raphaelkyembe4407 I rather not have developers coming out of Russia and China.

[@dadaistdadaistovich6878]

@@deafpolygonwhy?

[@imgladnotu9527]

​@@deafpolygona bit racist are we now?

[@lllIIIlIllIIll]

Imagine trusting developers from oppressive, authoritarian regimes

[@screenoholic]

Linux gamers' share would have increased if it were possible to buy Steam Deck in more countries. I'm in India, my fiends and I want to buy it, and the only way we can get it is we get it imported (which comes with customs issues) or have someone going to US/ Europe bring it here for us :/

[@Thorned_Rose]

Same. We wanted buy it here in New Zealand. To import it would have been astronomical with currency conversion and shipping. And now, even if it did come here we can't afford it any more (thanks cost of living) :(

[@LordTrashcanRulez]

​@@Thorned_RoseWeird, isn't it? Even some of the more developed nations need to pay very high prices for cheap electronics in the U.S.

[@nadiaholmquist]

That new Wayland icon protocol is very nice for Nix users too. If you have some GUI application running in a Nix shell, or `nix run` or whatever, you might not have a desktop file for it and it would just get that generic (W) icon instead of the proper one. Glad to see this being fixed!

[@mansourimohamedlamine]

x11

[@Gigusx]

A lot of people are still holding out switching to Linux until the EOL of Windows 10. I wonder if and how big the spike in userbase will be around that point. // isn't "overspent but according to plan" a complete oxymoron...? 😉 would make more sense to say that they operated at a 100k loss instead.

[@dotjretion]

From what little I understand, the term loss is only ever used in a for-profit context, whereas a non-profit such as what governs most major FOSS projects doesn't care about making a profit and thus things like profit and loss don't really apply. I could be getting it twisted tho.

[@JEM_Tank]

yeah I have like 3 friends who have told me they would rather go to linux than use windows 11 I'm going to have a busy year next year helping them

[@Ironpants57]

@@JEM_Tank Good to to see! Would hate to loose them to chromeOS. Pick a nice and easy distro to manage and update/upgrade.

[@Drakon0Blade]

I was going to wait but after all the news a few months ago I decided to just rip the bandaid off before I wound up buying more crap on the Microsoft/Xbox Store

[@JEM_Tank]

@@Ironpants57 Yeah, probably putting them on Mint with KDE

[@LinuxIsForAll]

I refreshed my youtube homepage for this video and it appeared! Nice!

[@lolcathost]

and that's how refreshing works, doesn't it?

[@bobdinitto]

I've been running Ubuntu as a daily driver for many, many years. And I've found that it's generally much safer and smoother to do a completely fresh install of Ubuntu rather than to upgrade. Unfortunately this requires I reinstall all my apps but I prefer this to dealing with a corrupted system due to a bad upgrade.

[@frankhuurman3955]

I've been running Ubuntu since 18.04 and never had a complete flawless LTS upgrade going to 20.04, 22.04 and now 24.04. Seems kind of crucial to get things like that right for the public, because of course someone is going to click the button that says upgrade when they get a pop-up that a newer version is available. But now I at least have a reason to visit all my non tech people again to fix the broken 24.04 installs so there's that :p

[@MichaelEhling]

Congrats on the side gig. I bet you're a very good teacher.

[@lorinkundert]

One Microsoft confirmed Recall, and that you can't remove it, people are walking away.

[@cameronbosch1213]

They did. And I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 10's EoL will see a lot of users giving Linux a serious chance.

[@terrathekhan]

@@cameronbosch1213 I'm fine with Windows 10 right now, but there's no way I'm going to use Windows 11 after Windows 10 EoL. I'm definetely switching to Linux Mint.

[@Ermageeerd]

@@terrathekhan nice

[@Rohinthas]

@@terrathekhanbeen using it for years now and never had a major issue (I dont play games though), so its my go-to recommendation for anyone who just want a browser and something to edit documents. It can do a lot more but turns out those two things already cover the needs of a lot of people.

[@ProtoType4588]

@@terrathekhan same allready checked if the software i need can run in a vm if it aint compatible with linux through ways like bottles and such and yes indeed if i cant get it to run on linux i can run windows virtualized without much performance loss the only reason i am now still on windows 10 is basically ease of use i know everything works i did have a positive linux mint experience when testing it on a old laptop thing was i was expecting linux mint to be more of a learning curve then it was but no i only had 1 time i had to restore through time shift and was able to do everything through terminal because i quickly noticed the terminal is still more aged like wine then the software stores but there is no intimidation factor in the terminal it was actually easy eventually i tried a arch based linux called garuda linux i prefer the kde over the gnome from that but 1 issue the wifi experience was crap on garuda i had to manually set it up which was a glitchy experience literally glitchy as i set it up the first time properly it did not work then i adjusted some settings did not work went back to the first settings i did it worked after it only 1 time bugged the wifi other then that the gaming experience was better gamescope i couldnt get working on linux mint on that laptop mangohud worked but wel it refuses to read any config files even while following the guides about how to set up mangohud note i installed this from the software store still annoying so both working on garuda was neat now comes the terminal while linux mint apt install and such commands were actually easy for me to remember that experience i don't have with garuda irony i only know that the install command has -u in the command to install while i forgot the main command apt seems to be way easier to remember while i felt confident with the terminal in linux mint it felt like i had no direction in garuda but it is to be expected i only was testing it for a week so i made enough progress ironically i fell in love with the radio widget the thing is on windows radio and i mean safe radio type software is a bit more tricky to find because majority are malware the radio widget is basically the only thing i missed in garuda and i know i could repackage it for garuda but knowing it can be done doesn't mean i can do it yet i tried the alternative radio widgets in garuda but all of them lacked a feature like being able to download the song that is playing right from the start because it can detect the song that is playing and the playlists were better done aswel then the alternatives i found on garuda can never have enough from listening the fallout radio stations on the desktop XD

[@18earendil]

Given how NPU are used on smartphones for Text-to-Speech and Speech-To-Text, it would be interesting to see Linux also leverage those for those same functions. Notably in accessibility tools like Orca Screen Reader.

[@CrafterAurora]

I updated from 22.04 to 24.04 when prompted, and it broke my machine so bad I had to install a fresh copy of Linux and spend the whole day recovering everything

[@---..]

Also broke my machine, but I keep my user data and OS separate and it didn't harm my user data, so no real recovery needed. Still annoying though: I thought sticking to Ubuntu and its recommended upgrade times and LTS would make me optimizing for easy reinstall (a habit from my distro hopping days) pointless, but nope: still a useful approach.

[@CrafterAurora]

@@---.. I luckily have 2 drives in my system, so I could just install a recovery copy of Linux on my archival drive and move my files there, then clear my boot drive, install a fresh copy of Linux there, and copy everything back over. I also prefer 22.04 anyway, 24.04 has some weird behavior with fullscreening apps and removed some functionality I used a lot (like the archive manager and the ability to open files directly with a java runtime) I genuinely might switch to a different distro, probably Debian or Arch

[@Tvirus12]

I installed linux into 3 computers I own this week, maybe its people like me making the graph grow :D

[@ekaterinaburakova8629]

Haha yes, same :D

[@vladgonzalez3325]

Thanks to Microsoft's B.S(recall, copilot , ads_). I'm pretty sure Linux grew.

[@Watchandlearn91]

If OEMs actually preinstalled Linux on their laptops and desktops by default and pumped a little software engineering resources into a specific distro then windows would hopefully die. The problem is MS used really nasty business practices in the 90s and 2000s to create the landscape we see today. And now they have so much money that they are very difficult to compete with.

[@definitlynotbenlente7671]

The issue is that microsoft has a monopoly that is hard to break my college demands the use of specific software that only runs on windows ( and libreoffice calc is not that good compared to excel)

[@joeschmoe3815]

​@@definitlynotbenlente7671Colleges should drop excel already and teach data analysis in Python or R. Excel is a joke but executives like colorful charts....Well, you can still do that in Python.

[@randoguy7488]

@@definitlynotbenlente7671 Yep, people don't use an OS, they use software running on an OS.

[@Dipj01]

They won't though. I think Microsoft literally pays them money to install windows which helps them sell their products at more competitive prices.

[@lexcelius6921]

​​​​@@Dipj01 in the 90s MS did exactly That. Well not really Paying. It was more of a Discount so long as the Manufacturer did not offer an Alternatives. Now its Illegal, but MS did that at the Dawn of Personal Computing. Though you Can't tell me Manufacturers don't basically get Free Copies of Windows with thw Fact that a Windows Install Media for 10 or 11 is 200 and you can buy a decent Mini PC with Windows on it for 150 to 300 bucks

[@kansascityonline]

luv KDE plasma.. best desktop on the webs..!!..

[@JJ-vv3eo]

Greetings from Poland :)

[@TheNeverPoet]

Greetings from Poland indeed, witamy witamy wszystkich :D

[@5fr4ewq]

Polska gurom

[@catto-from-heaven]

Życie jest bez sensu i wszyscy zginiemy 😊

[@michaell.8748]

the bots are already here 😭

[@tissousle]

very sad. i reported them all

[@LinuxIsForAll]

@@tissousleme too

[@cameronbosch1213]

The bots are ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Lampe2020]

They are often there before real humans, because they use the API and probably can get a notification as soon as a new video on a certain channel was created, giving them the ability to respond within milliseconds.

[@JJ-vv3eo]

@@michaell.8748 bots?

[@caios3446]

Steam made the right decision in using linux to their console, and now linux is able to be good for everything. Atleast for me, with my Manjaro KDE, I can play videogames, create music, edit videos, edit images, draw, create games and much more. The only one app that is not availlable for linux its one for analysing data, and I simply just downloaded an virtual machine.

[@kuwandak]

R

[@joseluismateo2745]

the bots going crazy over linux news lmao

[@catto-from-heaven]

I couldn't see any. What were they saying?

[@somenameidk5278]

probably what they alwyas say, i haven't really seen bots attempt to say anything related to the video they're commenting on other than by stealing someone else's comment

[@televisor404]

love this channel! greetings from Venezuela thanks to your pronunciation I improved my English-ear

[@cameronbosch1213]

1:44 "It's the Linux market share! It just keeps growing and growing!" 😂

[@rocklinks]

@@cameronbosch1213 yes i want linux to capture 20% market share soon

[@definitlynotbenlente7671]

​@rocklinks hopefully then softwhare businesses wil start developing for linux

[@rocklinks]

@@definitlynotbenlente7671 i need that to happen soon

[@honkhonkler7732]

I dual boot with Windows currently. Im just waiting for Fedora to support HDR and a few other nice to haves before switching completely. It would also be nice to have an office suite as feature complete as full fat Microsoft Office.

[@Bareego]

I only keep my windows for Lightroom, so boot into it maybe once a month, and man it hurts to use Windows now.

[@bvd_vlvd]

I've been on Onlyoffice for a while. I don't miss any MS Office features, although I get if you need some of them for your job

[@boscorner]

Windows has pushed so many people to Linux this year oh my god

[@Iskelderon]

I'm a web dev, so I usually use Linux as a work environment anyway (Windows mostly for entertainment) and ever since that moronic artificial requirements debacle I just put Linux on older private machines that only have a purpose for browsing and videos anymore.

[@Bareego]

I'm a person who doesn't care about any AI stuff in CPUs, I wonder though, as their computing cores are somewhat similar to the ones in GPUs, if there will be a way of improving gaming through the NPU cores to help out the workload of the GPU.

[@abd5139]

If x86 don’t have an equivalent sleep state mode to arm (instant wake up, low to non existant battery loss when you wake up your laptop 4hours or 1 day later), arm will become the default for ultra portable

[@AnEagle]

I don't have any noticeable battery drain or time waking up from suspend on Linux, only on windows. It's a known problem with windows modern standby I believe

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

With Windows (and Mac), it will not go into the deepest sleep state if you close a laptop's lid while it is connected to AC power. If you unplug then close the lid it behaves properly.

[@JEM_Tank]

It technically is already, phones are the ultra portable

[@abd5139]

@@JEM_Tank Yeah it is lol, i meant laptops ultra portable

[@jfolz]

How quickly a device wakes up has more to do with the OS than the hardware. My laptop (ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 AMD) already looses less than 1% per day during sleep, so I'm not sure if there's any meaningful improvements to be made there.

[@in-craig-ible6160]

Good luck with the teaching job!

[@Obnomus]

Nick thanks for adding articles in dark mode you listened

[@TazerXI]

Looks like you have really made it now you are starting to get some...interesting bots Also hope that teaching gig goes well

[@TheLinuxEXP]

The first day was awesome!

[@TazerXI]

@@TheLinuxEXP that's great to hear!

[@cameronbosch1213]

The bots make it seem like they like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@ekaterinaburakova8629]

Nick as a teacher! ^^ Congrats, hope you'll enojy it!

[@loc4725]

Slides: just do what my University lecturers did and 'slap' them together, do it only once every few years regardless of changes to the subject and finally print them off and call them lecture notes.

[@dantahoua]

Enseigner c'est beaucoup de préparation mais aussi beaucoup de fun ensuite!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Oui, mon premier jour s’est vraiment super bien passé !

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

@@TheLinuxEXP Keep at it, Nick! Hope you can slip Linux in there!

[@GardenData61371]

Can you teach us some French swear words? :P ​@@TheLinuxEXP

[@abunk8691]

Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 man that's likely related to the issues with Mint 21.x users upgrading to Mint 22 that's based on 24.04. I almost broke my Mint 21.3 install when it tried to remove python3 and Cinnamon DE metapackage during the upgrade process among many other packages. There were also a lot of packages that were not available between repos of the releases (i.e. qt libraries). I had to manually revert the changes made during the failed upgrade and fix repo sources back to 22.04 (jammy) and reinstall all packages that got removed. If I had rebooted after the failed upgrade I would have had no grub and a broked kernel, good thing I was able to revert all changes before rebooting and the mintupgrade log was useful in doing so. I'll probably wait a few months more before trying to upgrade to Mint 22 again, unless I feel like wiping my system and instead starting from LMDE instead of regular Mint which should reduce the amount of repos I have to add to get the packages I need.

[@thefanboy3285]

Interesting and useful knowledge. Thanks for the share. I was hesitating on whether I should upgrade or not my LM21.3 to LM22. Now i know i'll have to wait a little more.

[@abunk8691]

@@thefanboy3285 Your welcome. I may attempt the upgrade again once Ubuntu 24.04.1 is available to give both Ubuntu and Mint devs time to fix things. Some issues like the Qt related one I mentioned is said to be caused by an upstream change made by Debian and later adopted by Ubuntu which affected those based on it like Mint. I was reading Linux Mint forum posts from around the end of August 2024, after my upgrade to Mint 22 failed and saw other posts similar to the situation I encoutnered with varying outcomes. I lucked out that I understood a good chunk of the APT commands that were involved in the attempted upgrade process and knew how to revert them, but not everyone I read was able to. A few of them had a Timeshift backup that they could just restore, but I didn't as I lack a spare drive for that. Worst case scenario would need a fresh install of Mint and in that case just going straight to Mint 22 (or alternatively LMDE 6) is more sensible.

[@Linux_ASMR]

I tried Mint 22 and while it worked fine for the most part, I had some nasty graphical bugs which I didn't have in 21.3. I guess following the "if it ain't broken, don't try to fix it" is a nice mantra to live by, I'll just stay on 21.3 for a while 😁

[@Bareego]

Yeah it borked my python3, also had issues with nvidia drivers after I upgraded from Mint 21.3. Ended up backing up my data and installing 22 over it. I've tried out LMDE running on XFCE, it wasn't too bad, the only major difference I saw was not having the driver manager. Otherwise looked just like my XFCE Mint. If/when I ever get a newer computer I'll make sure to get an AMD card, so much less hassle on linux.

[@abunk8691]

An addendum (again as my first attempt got eaten by the macerator called KZbin). I've read on some issues with the Mint 22 upgrade caused by stuff Ubuntu 24.04 changed and some were caused by Debian dependency package changes (i.e. Qt stuff). For those sticking with Mint 21.x for now it should be fine since support for that is until April 2027 iirc. I'll likely be waiting for Ubuntu 24.04.1 for more time for the Ubuntu caused issues to be fixed on Mint 22. Alternatively there's the option of switching to LMDE 6 (Debian 12 based) which is mostly similar to regular Mint with an obvious difference of no Driver Manager app, but Nvidia driver can still be installed using APT on a terminal.

[@protocol6]

The Windows on ARM issues remind me of the transition to x64. The only difference is you don't have the option to install the x86 version of windows to avoid the problems; Not without also changing out the hardware.

[@FengLengshun]

Hm, I don't know 100% how close this is to shipping, but I saw that usb-devices portal has been merged. This is important for gnome-boxes, which if and when it ships there my virtualization usecase will be covered by gnome-boxes which is great for immutable distro like SteamOS and Bazzite/rpm-ostree.

[@SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

Also, while I'm at work, in a Walmart in the US, I'm constantly exposed to laptops that are replacing the right CTRL key with a Copilot key, which is starting to bug the living Giratina out of me.

[@NFvidoJagg2]

ya, how many of those microsoft copilot laptops are going to end up just running Linux latter down the line :p

[@Ermageeerd]

realistically, abt 10%.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks Nick.

[@declancottle991]

Not upgrading correctly is the typical Ubuntu experience.

[@aruan7sp]

I think the main reason Epic Games doesn't want to support Linux as much as they're willing to support Windows on Arm is because of the Steam Deck. They don't want people playing their games on a platform owned by their main competitor.

[@fuseteam]

btw if you add chromeos we're above 5% :D now only if chromeos added flatpak support-

[@أنسصديق-ع4د]

it can run flatpaks using the virtual debian thing in chromeos

[@fuseteam]

@@أنسصديق-ع4د that's not what I mean with 'flatpak support'

[@fuseteam]

@@أنسصديق-ع4د I mean 'flatpak support' that the user doesn't have to do anything special. That publishing an app for chromeos means, publishing the app on google's hypothetical flatpak remote

[@fuseteam]

@@أنسصديق-ع4د that's not what I mean with 'flatpak support' I mean 'flatpak support' that the user doesn't have to do anything special. That publishing an app for chromeos means, publishing the app on google's hypothetical flatpak remote

[@dead_art]

So, Linux users should opt in any telemetry available for the sake of blessing in numbers. If all possible aggregators see it and show it in their stats, the Linux users numbers would be higher. The higher the numbers - the more companies willing to support Linux and write and port software to it.

[@fuseteam]

this LTS block doesn't have to block rebases, this does not affect fresh installs

[@UntoEternalLight]

I would try switching to Kubuntu if I could make AutoDesk Revit work on Linux since my job kind of revolves around it, but that seems to be a no-go currently and a Windows VM wouldn't be performant enough.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

saying you beat a smartphone cpu is like saying with a lambo i beat a Peugeot 206

[@corban5364]

I'm proud to think that I'm part of that suppossed exponential growth. I have an steam deck and I have been using linux on my laptop for years. After my CPU finally gave up after 12 years, I built a new gaming PC and I ditched Windows for Linux on it as well, leaving only my work PC as windows driven (and after showing my boss that everything I do at work I do it using WSL they are open to allow me to switch to a Debian installation).

[@lightechoes]

"A generous handful of salt." 🤣 Accurate.

[@Dimitrys_af]

Oh My God the bots!!!!

[@mrmc101]

the arm gaming argument is really silly because people buying a laptop like that are most likely not intending it for gaming. the big problem i see with microsofts new arm laptops is that they didn't do any of the hard research apple did before they ever even thought about launching the M series chips. ARM windows itself fucking sucks already, so when you combine it with a laptop built with an off the shelf mobile chip your gonna get what's essentially a crappy laptop that makes you wish you just bought an apple silicon laptop. the surface is around the same price as a macbook now, christ it looks like a sad knock-off now. i think most people who want an ARM laptop, a laptop focused on productivity and efficiency, already don't care about gaming so they're just gonna go with the apple alternative instead.

[@treyquattro]

things must be going well in Linux world if bling watches are a signifier...

[@lukadjo]

Statcounter lets you see the total OS market share across platforms. Windows had 90%+ in 2009 and has collapsed ever since. Android is the most popular operating system with over 40% of total market share today. Android first became the most popular in 2017 and battled with windows to keep that title until the end of 2020, since then it has become unrivalled. Linux has been slowly increasing and it is at around 1.64% today which is 0.24 points higher than last year (1.2%) at the same month. That makes Linux the only desktop os that gained market share in the last year as all others have declined.

[@keithbozin1228]

Good luck with the teaching gig it is a lot of work

[@ZekeFriday]

I use Arch btw❤

[@DaltonMyWorld]

Thanks

[@fjcjsns]

i go to a new dev school in France in a few weeks, now I'm going to pray to see you x)

[@TheLinuxEXP]

I don’t teach development, unfortunately 😁

[@savagepro9060]

@@TheLinuxEXP He doesn't want you to TEACH him. He just wants to SEE you!

[@elalemanpaisa]

Hey Nick :) We are everyone.

[@KuruGDI]

Regarding Linux market share: In November 2023 there is a larger dip in OSX devices which seem to have spread between Windows and Linux/Unknown First I thought that Linux might gain market share from Windows 10 users who do not want to upgrade to 11, but maybe is a good amount of people who come from the Apple universe. It would be very interesting to see what drove them to this change.

[@definitlynotbenlente7671]

I think the unknown category is mostly linux users

[@KuruGDI]

Of course companies rather support Windows than Linux. If you don't understand that just think how you as a company would be able finance your software development over long term: With a company that has tons of cash and can pay for development because they will get the money back with their products or a foundation that does not make money with their products and is more or less designed to give it away for free.

[@Battler624]

Immutable Linux is great, I love it. Really want an arch immutable version, AUR in an immutable format would be the best version of linux there is. (which is SteamOS as it stands)

[@kroan49]

Moved to linux in March and I'm never going back to Windows. If one distro doesn't suite try another, sooner or later you'll find something that you'll love. Initially used Mint, now use PopOS it's fantastic IMO.

[@AgentBurgers]

As a primary linux user, part of me thinks ARM will be the future and to the normal user that's not tech savvy, and ARM based Windows laptop is just a normal computer which is why I think devs will invest in anti-cheat for those systems so I think people will buy anyways

[@Koraka_ARandomGuy]

Linux gives everything what the most user are needing: - Brave Browser, VPN, KODI or VLC, Music Player, Text Editor. For me would be interesting, how many Linux Users are using the Web Microsoft office or Apples online Solution, as well Apple Music Web or similar sites.

[@Shabbir-A.]

we converted about 10 laptops to Linux in last 10 days and awesome experience. all to Ubuntu Linux.

[@manolol1119]

Great video! Are you teaching about Linux, or something different?

[@Alan-zf2tt]

My take @ "Linux Desktop market" The west is going thru a long spell of self-harm. German productivity has nose dived, outsourcing drools and ... hardtimes are back again. I think that is why more people are dabbling in linux desktops. It is reason I was attracted to Linux and now I love my Linux distro and a big thumbs up to MX Linux. It is a sorta stable kind of distro if you find Mint kinda tooo "stable" if you know what I mean. My guess is that linux market share will continue to increase until good times return - if they ever do that is. If good times do return I'd expect Linux user base to stabilize from expo growth to linear growth models.

[@sylvershadow1247]

Good luck with your teaching 🙂 how old are the kids you're teaching?

[@luckyhomestead]

1:57 Tel me please how these numbers are calculated? :D In august I tried a bunch of distros only to choose one. But I re downloaded and reinstalled about ~15 - 20 times, some times the same, sometimes diferent distro...

[@dalavitang]

I think the Steam data might be skewed this month because Black Myths Wukong was released and Chinese users were so hyped. And China has a VERY large user base and it can affect the statistics.

[@SchoolforHackers]

Ah, teaching: be very, very careful of your students. They can pose massive risks to you for many years after your class time. Never provide any referral to a job, and never provide a reference (endorsement) of any student. Confirm dates of classes if you’re asked, but no more. And record every - I mean EVERY - conversation. It saved my chitlins.

[@Mr_Poole]

I think we can all thank Copilot for that, lol. Also, did you make those slides on Linux ;P

[@RoyaltyInTraining.]

Tim sweeney was a hypocrite all alone, who would have thunk /s

[@laminathith2530]

No Gnome or GTK updates ?

[@dhanushprejipreji7991]

Porud Linux user❤ the only issue i have is battery life on Fedora gnome

[@adrianwolff2007]

Linux should focus on more mainstream software then anymore distros.

[@savagepro9060]

Your teaching side-gig, is it Linux or French Cuisine?

[@leonidd00]

Microsoft is actually doing hard work of pushing thier users away from windows towards linux by integrating into windows stuff no one needs and actually no one wants. Great job so far! A friend of mine who is working as software delevoper here in Germany told me that some clients of his company (middle size it businesses) switched completely to linux, also in his company delveloers are allowed only to use linux.

[@hopelessdecoy]

The average user is where all the niche cases get support. More normal people on Linux is good. Gamers are a hard place to start when it comes to support and traction. If people start using it in school and work the game companies will follow.

[@nempk1817]

Steam survey is not based on use of the steam app, is based on the Hardware survey response. Some times the number of Linux users just drops or doubled based on the month, is not too reliable.

[@unnainconnu9098]

You should always have a recovery media, whatever your distribution.

[@conjurermast]

Anyone who tries to fight fingerprinting will pretend to be a Windows user too. As for gaming, I expect the numbers to grow again in September now that the summer holiday is over for them kids.

[@jameskrych7767]

On the Kubuntu front, my laptop's upgrade was a nightmare. I finally had to install using all UEFI settings. And, every so often, I have to enter systemctl restart sddm as the background refuses to come up. The laptop is a Dell 7490. Ironically, the 22.04 LTS Dell T7500 and my wife's Dell T5610 upgraded fairly easily. (Using the GUI upgrader) My own tower, T7910, will either get upgraded or I will replace the drives with a 10TB one and install from scratch. After, I copy the folders over to a SSD drive.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Well, if putting that money into their developers will help KDE grow and get better I'm game, and with that (and their new donation messages), it will bring in more donations.

[@atreusduvelll600]

I will grant you the fact that Co-pilot+ PCs will not overcome Linux in market share this year or maybe even next year, but the difference is the uptake of the ARM Windows PCs will likely much more rapid than Linux. Epic is future proofing themselves as they expect ARM for Windows to quickly overtake Linux in market share. Time will tell if this bet pays off, especially with climbing Linux market share in general

[@Dinky-Ayulo]

Hope teaching works out

[@iopqu]

I still play StarCraft remastered. There's dozens of us!

[@Walker956]

kudos for bookmarking sponsors

[@hoangminhnguyen5035]

With KDE I hope them to make Plasma even better. I am currently using Kubuntu 24.04 so I am excited for 24.10 to come so I can use the stabilized Plasma 6.

[@cameronbosch1213]

Why aren't you using Tuxedo OS? It is much more up to date than Kubuntu and lacks snaps?

[@5fr4ewq]

Why don't you go for Fedora?

[@cameronbosch1213]

@@5fr4ewq In the past, Fedora's KDE spin wasn't great. I'd personally wait until Fedora 41 to jump on board.

[@olnnn]

@@cameronbosch1213 Only the kde part of it is, the rest is still based on 2 year old ubuntu 22.04 (though tuxedo os 4 based on 24.04 is in beta afaik and should be out pretty soon, maybe it's stalled ont the same problems.)

[@5fr4ewq]

@@cameronbosch1213 Dude, I'm literally using it xD What's wrong with it?

[@lenowoo]

Linux user rising and it's not from steamdeck. . Hmm. . Seems like a good sign

[@corban5364]

Also about the gaming section. You should keep in mind that the current trend for modern anticheats is to be run at kernel level because selling users data is more profi- ahem, sorry. Because it helps them prevent cheaters for ruining the experience for everyone as proved by R6, Valorant and other cheater ridden games up to this point. I bet Windows is more keen to allow other people to install this than Linux users and devs, so that's the real reason for me, they are just scared of what they really do at kernel level being made public for the general userbase of their products.

[@potaotismus7586]

I switched to Linux, but sadly getting Linux to work flawlessly consumes a lot of time. I'm now on vacation and I don't know if I'll stick to it. I spent about three hours today figuring out why my brother scanner wasn't functioning on openSUSE and I found out that some libs were missing. I hope that Linux developers focus more on functionality and make it easier for casual users to diagnose. Linux now feels like windows 98 when you have the CD of the drivers and drivers won't function.

[@hrfdude4234]

13:30 it's not bs, because 4 percent is not enough for a "non paying platform" for them to be bothered! but Microsoft paying them is another thing entirely! if the marketshare for linux was 20 30 percent for example (which may never happen) it would be reasonable to think that the possibility of something like epic coming to linux would be much higher than if it was 4 (not a 100 percent though)!

[@corban5364]

It's BS. You can't convince me that the reason is not because they use invasive anticheats full of telemetry with kernel level privileges to "protect gamers" and not because of market share itself. Linux has always been more protective of the users privacy than windows, and current year anticheats are not so different to the new recall feature, they are scared of what the anticheat truly does in the background being exposed to the general public.

[@zanylyf]

Microsoft has been adviertising Linux a lot ig

[@OldieBugger]

No wonder people who took the dangerous choice and tried Linux are staying with it. Unless you really need some special software like Adobe suite, you're better off with Linux (when compared to Windows). And really, please take a note: a Modern Linux _DOES NOT_ need the command line to anything, unless you really want to use it.

[@lloydbond13]

I disagree, Steam Linux is not stuck at ~2%. It's going to be a while before people get their random survey after switching. If you look over Steam Tracker on GOL, we always see resistance then a boom. Sometimes there is regression but eventually the highs become the new resistance points and the old resistance points become the new lows. Like now, Steam Linux hit a low, which once was the resistance point only 3 months prior. Also, PC gaming is growing, a lot. So just maintaining the resistance point means more Steam Linux gamers. Unless there becomes a reason to abandon Steam Linux, the network effect will continue to work it's magic and we will continue to see year over year growth. The Steam Linux ecosystem is maturing faster and faster. It's sort of ridiculous how good things have become. Eventually Valve will be doing more polishing and less heavy lifting. So, unless something major happens that make gaming on Linux with Steam pointless, adoption of Linux for gaming is only a matter of time.