News Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25

[mitch074]

I was saying "need", not know. I like some other terminal features as well, but the point I and anon9361 are both agreeing on is that it had been a while since any terminal commands were required to use the more user friendly Linux distros as Windows substitutes.

And I don't means anything else - I personally use the CLI often, because I know it quite well, and it allows me to do easily some stuff that would be long and/or clunky through a GUI. Still, as you say, for most tasks there's a perfectly fine GUI under Linux.

 

[mitch074]

Reputations tend to stick for a long time; it'll be interesting to see if it changes in the near future or not. Especially since in some benchmarks it looks like Proton is basically on par with or outperforming Windows 11....

This one is in German, but it's been quoted in other articles and Google Translate is a friend.

Proton is an optimized fork of Wine, and it's been known for a long time that some tasks (especially I/O ones) run faster on Linux than Windows. So, considering that Proton/Wine's overhead is often non-existant (they're not an emulation layer but a reimplementation of Windows APIs), and also that they don't run all the spyware AKA 'telemetry' Windows is, then yes, barring some performance hogging bugs, running a Windows app under Linux is as fast, and often faster, than the same app under Windows.

 

[Sam Bridges]

I work on MacOS and play games on Linux. I stopped using Windows 15 years ago. Considering how much worse Windows got since then, I don’t understand why more people are not jumping ship.

 

[Gravy405]

For me it was Outlook - I've tried loads of linux apps for mail, but if you have at least one Exchange + multiple other accounts getting 300+ emails a day, Outlook (was) the best by a very long way. My newest work is O365 based, so being able to run Edge at least once to get my profile / shortcuts across would be useful, though my browser of choice on Windows and Android is Firefox, so no problems there.

Thanks to the 365 app version of Outlook now being extremely buggy (2019 was the last good version) and the web version being okayish, that key work obstacle is removed. I may try Debian (I've used Red Hat and Debian as servers for over 20 years) as a desktop again and look into gaming more. Steam is great, but if I can also run GoG, Epic, Battle.net etc, then it may well be time.

When i had multiple email accounts few years back I had used Mozilla Thunderbird. I always liked it better than Outlook. Just an idea.

 

[mitch074]

When i had multiple email accounts few years back I had used Mozilla Thunderbird. I always liked it better than Outlook. Just an idea.

Some people don't like the defaults nor behaviour of Thunderbird once they've gotten used to Outlook - migrating them is like pulling teeth.
Once you've managed it though, going back to Outlook really feels like going back to a turd.

 

[kyzarvs]

When i had multiple email accounts few years back I had used Mozilla Thunderbird. I always liked it better than Outlook. Just an idea.

I tried it and I'm a daily user of Firefox so like Mozilla, but I couldn't get it to work in a way that was as rapid for me as Outlook 2019 and earlier. Also the version I tried some time ago was a bit flakey with Exchange, needing plugins etc.

 

[castl3bravo]

Unsurprised by some of the negative comments towards Linux.

For those more interested in what Linux has to offer here are some solutions I've used that work with some effort.

• With Linux enable games to work on Linux natively after October 2025.
• Emulate the TPM with KVM for a Windows11 guest on older hardware w/o TPM.
• Use KVM with SRIOV to import the GPU into a Windows11 guest to run games.