@kestral @eugenialoli We’re entering a decade with fewer people having actual general purpose computers at home and most people shifting to phones, tablets and gaming consoles. And in business computers are mostly being used as thin clients; hence the question of desktop operating systems is getting more moot every day.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 23:49:06 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Eugenia L (eugenialoli@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 00:52:22 JST Eugenia L
@thomasfuchs @kestral That's true in some markets. Most people have a laptop around just to do the jobs they can't do with their phone. I recently asked some kids in my village in Greece if they wanted me to teach them to use a computer, and they said no. They don't really care. However, a substantial amount of people will still have computers, and Linux might just be the ticket for them to avoid buying a new PC.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 00:52:22 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@eugenialoli @kestral I guarantee you that 90% of people don’t even know what an operating system is
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Eugenia L (eugenialoli@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:10:37 JST Eugenia L
@thomasfuchs @kestral Which is why I said 10% of the market, and not 90%.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:10:37 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@eugenialoli @kestral Of these 10% maybe 75% use Windows currently, half of them might be fed up enough to switch (rest can’t for various reasons)—and they’ll mostly switch to Macs.
So Mac gets 2 percent more market share and Linux goes from 3% to 4%.
That’s my take on it.
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Eugenia L (eugenialoli@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:15:25 JST Eugenia L
@thomasfuchs @kestral Linux is currently around 4%. From the people who are going to continue having a desktop (because we all agree that most will move to mobile devices), I expect these people to be more interested in tech, and as such, going for Linux more so than the 1% you suggest. My take is 10% by the end of the decade.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:15:25 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@eugenialoli @kestral Setting an alarm for 2030, hope the world is still there.
I sincerely hope you’re right and that I’m wrong btw.
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