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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
http://www.pornhub.com/insights/pornhub-2015-year-in-review
2.5% Linux and it is rising comparing to 2014.
http://gs.statcounter.com/?PHPSESSID=hv8v27bpbdn4a5sh5igd1f7ln0#desktop-os-ww-monthly-200807-201607
Linux is in "others"
I chose only desktop so there is no Android, but there is ChromeOS that is counted separately from Linux.
from the data:
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Date Linux Unknown Chrome OS2008-07 0.84 0 0
2008-08 0.79 0 0
2008-09 0.77 0 0
2008-10 0.69 0 0
2008-11 0.64 0 0
2008-12 0.62 0.07 0
2009-01 0.64 0.17 0
2009-02 0.62 0.14 0
2009-03 0.65 0.16 0
2009-04 0.66 0.17 0
2009-05 0.65 0.24 0
2009-06 0.74 0.28 0
2009-07 0.76 0.13 0
2009-08 0.69 0.1 0
2009-09 0.7 0.1 0
2009-10 0.68 0.1 0
2009-11 0.72 0.17 0
2009-12 0.68 0.23 0
2010-01 0.7 0.2 0
2010-02 0.74 0.11 0
2010-03 0.78 0.11 0
2010-04 0.79 0.15 0
2010-05 0.81 0.18 0
2010-06 0.8 0.08 0
2010-07 0.77 0.08 0
2010-08 0.79 0.08 0
2010-09 0.78 0.08 0
2010-10 0.77 0.07 0
2010-11 0.78 0.07 0
2010-12 0.75 0.08 0
2011-01 0.74 0.07 0
2011-02 0.76 0.07 0
2011-03 0.76 0.07 0
2011-04 0.76 0.07 0
2011-05 0.81 0.08 0
2011-06 0.79 0.08 0
2011-07 0.76 0.07 0
2011-08 0.78 0.04 0
2011-09 0.8 0.06 0
2011-10 0.84 0.07 0
2011-11 0.84 0.04 0
2011-12 0.83 0.07 0
2012-01 0.82 0.07 0
2012-02 0.83 0.08 0
2012-03 0.83 0.14 0
2012-04 0.85 0.05 0
2012-05 0.86 0.05 0
2012-06 0.83 0.05 0
2012-07 0.83 0.06 0
2012-08 0.85 0.06 0.01
2012-09 0.88 0.06 0.01
2012-10 0.9 0.06 0.01
2012-11 0.9 0.06 0.01
2012-12 0.88 0.07 0.01
2013-01 0.88 0.07 0.01
2013-02 0.93 0.07 0.02
2013-03 0.95 0.08 0.02
2013-04 1.05 0.08 0.02
2013-05 1.28 0.09 0.02
2013-06 1.3 0.12 0.02
2013-07 1.23 0.08 0.03
2013-08 1.23 0.09 0.03
2013-09 1.02 0.1 0.04
2013-10 1.1 0.1 0.04
2013-11 1.15 0.11 0.05
2013-12 1.13 0.08 0.1
2014-01 1.13 0.05 0.14
2014-02 1.14 0.26 0.16
2014-03 1.16 0.47 0.18
2014-04 1.34 0.44 0.19
2014-05 1.58 0.54 0.19
2014-06 1.37 0.61 0.19
2014-07 1.34 0.63 0.19
2014-08 1.38 0.61 0.21
2014-09 1.39 0.72 0.25
2014-10 1.41 0.9 0.27
2014-11 1.33 0.93 0.28
2014-12 1.39 0.91 0.29
2015-01 1.46 0.91 0.33
2015-02 1.55 0.94 0.34
2015-03 1.82 1 0.34
2015-04 1.91 1.12 0.35
2015-05 1.77 1.23 0.38
2015-06 1.77 1.46 0.29
2015-07 1.52 1.9 0.26
2015-08 1.5 1.94 0.3
2015-09 1.55 1.93 0.41
2015-10 1.57 2.51 0.46
2015-11 1.5 2.81 0.47
2015-12 1.48 3.31 0.51
2016-01 1.47 3.8 0.51
2016-02 1.47 3.83 0.55
2016-03 1.45 2.74 0.53
2016-04 1.55 3.06 0.55
2016-05 1.44 3.59 0.59
2016-06 1.46 4.06 0.41
2016-07 1.51 4.86 0.39
Also specific for Greece:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-GR-monthly-201405-201606
http://gs.statcounter.com/?PHPSESSID=hv8v27bpbdn4a5sh5igd1f7ln0#desktop-os-GR-monthly-201606-201606-bar
Linux is now over 4% ahead from OSX!
Also in steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Linux does not loose absolute numbers but it seems it is relatively not keeping up with Windows and this is disappointing. On the bright side, we know have a quite healthy ecosystems of games. Nonetheless we have now relatively less linux gamers than linux users.
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http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
902,656 950,466 Dota 2491,842 532,637 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
52,913 57,113 Team Fortress 2
45,041 53,122 ARK: Survival Evolved
42,551 54,167 Football Manager 2016
41,665 42,944 Grand Theft Auto V
33,309 33,633 Unturned
32,809 41,093 Sid Meier's Civilization V
32,751 38,095 Rust
30,556 35,064 Garry's Mod
9/10 games do support Linux! :)
(Grand Theft Auto V is the only not supporting)
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362894 965343 1 Dota 2159228 529924 1 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
41840 47786 1 Rocket League
39571 57525 1 Team Fortress 2
33017 51654 1 ARK: Survival Evolved
30461 39964 1 Sid Meier's Civilization V
24540 31154 0 Fallout 4
20082 36368 1 Rust
18879 41714 0 Grand Theft Auto V
18627 27883 0 Warframe
18361 51192 1 Football Manager 2016
17861 32017 1 Garry's Mod
17450 25609 0 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
14943 26036 1 Path of Exile
13258 28984 0 Arma 3
12444 31336 1 Unturned
10436 15322 0 Clicker Heroes
9317 11225 1 Borderlands 2
8827 11479 1 Terraria
8241 13387 0 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
8119 20038 0 Dead by Daylight
7415 12693 0 SMITE
7300 12442 0 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
7206 10371 0 H1Z1: King of the Kill
6818 20566 1 Counter-Strike
6482 12079 0 Total War: WARHAMMER
6078 12071 1 War Thunder
6010 7053 1 RimWorld
5692 11606 1 Europa Universalis IV
5380 5987 1 Starbound
5229 9643 1 Mount & Blade: Warband
5029 9630 1 Left 4 Dead 2
4965 12577 1 PAYDAY 2
4917 5070 0 FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn
4854 5823 1 7 Days to Die
4853 6560 0 DARK SOULS III
4844 6194 0 Tree of Savior (English Ver.)
4824 10238 0 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided™
4720 6908 1 Crusader Kings II
4679 4897 1 Stardew Valley
4667 8724 1 Cities: Skylines
4211 7813 1 Hearts of Iron IV
4063 7913 0 Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
4044 9898 0 Call of Duty: Black Ops III
3952 6002 1 Stellaris
3925 5878 1 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
3895 6285 0 Elite Dangerous
3823 6266 0 Age of Empires II: HD Edition
3801 6387 0 Brawlhalla
3744 4774 0 Tropico 4
3724 4590 0 No Man's Sky
3491 4869 1 Factorio
3475 9620 1 Football Manager 2015
3200 5893 1 Don't Starve Together
3107 7669 0 Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
3004 14232 1 Euro Truck Simulator 2
2987 3630 0 Magic Duels
2952 8334 0 Heroes & Generals
2921 8928 1 Counter-Strike: Source
2915 6055 0 Trove
2853 4279 1 XCOM 2
2838 3723 0 RuneScape: Idle Adventures
2648 6177 0 DayZ
2644 3731 1 Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
2629 3819 1 AdVenture Capitalist
2575 2633 0 TERA
2437 3439 0 Killing Floor 2
2436 5661 0 Spore
2432 2810 1 Kerbal Space Program
2366 5694 1 Company of Heroes 2
2357 2611 0 Fallout: New Vegas
2353 2521 0 EVGA Precision XOC
2321 3389 0 Grim Dawn
2299 2755 0 The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited
2294 3766 0 Space Engineers
2272 2482 0 Star Trek Online
2196 5358 1 Robocraft
2163 4393 0 Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies
2163 4056 0 NBA 2K16
2121 3360 0 METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
2058 3570 1 Prison Architect
2057 3004 1 Insurgency
2039 3451 1 Medieval II: Total War
2028 5431 0 Farming Simulator 15
1990 2738 1 ShellShock Live
1965 3020 0 Shop Heroes
1962 4515 0 Warface
1943 3658 1 Empire: Total War
1887 3946 1 Total War: ATTILA
1820 2912 0 Knight Online
1796 3498 0 Evolve Stage 2
1788 2152 0 Call of Duty: World at War
1783 1837 0 Dungeon Fighter Online
1776 2496 1 American Truck Simulator
1759 2082 0 Ragnarok Clicker
1720 2459 0 H1Z1: Just Survive
1714 2748 0 Total War: SHOGUN 2
1703 2446 0 Borderlands
1692 2464 0 PlanetSide 2
1666 3501 0 The Forest
Not bad
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Eventhough these days I don't miss Windows OS at all since Linux fulfills both my computing and gaming needs I'd really like to see that change of game developing model since the Linux will probably be the place to run by users who will not stay on the path of Windows 10...
I've also seen some game developers like Epic Games who bash over Apple and Microsoft and their "closeness" but on the other hand majority of their games don't support Linux and neither are they planning to support it, probably being afraid of such risky and "non-profitable" moves. I really hope that such companies realize that people would actually prefer using Linux due to its' openness if they just considered Linux to be a real gaming platform just as they did Android on mobile side of things... Valve was the only company that was brave enough for such move and I believe that other companies who had similar opinions about open gaming don't realize that it's them on who the open-platformed gaming depends.
I am an optimist and believe that one day we will see at least some AAA day 1 releases that are not ports! :)
And not that I'm bashing over ports! They are great and they are closing the gap between the past and the future so companies like Feral, Aspyr and others should keep up the GREAT WORK!
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http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Windows 95.38% -0.33%
OSX 3.59% +0.25%
Linux 0.94% +0.11%
That is relatively quite huge ( 0.11/0.83 = 13% ) and is coming after a continuous growth in the previous months. So while steam statistics are not reliable it is still a very good trend. 2016 looks like is going to be positive and hopefully 2017 will be really good and hopefully 2018 will be huge in absolute numbers. :P
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P.S. maybe you guys can port last game from top 10 that does not support Linux :P.
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Also the number of Win10 users have actually decreased in the last month and I think that Microsoft is doing quite a favour to the Linux community with what they're forcing people into with win10. I don't know how statistically significant the numbers are but the adoption of windows 10 is not going as they planned at all and probably never will despite all the effort that they're putting into the promotion... It's literally like everywhere I look around there's Win10 logos in shoping centres etc. A lot of casual users will I guess just choose some flavour of Linux for everyday computing. Gaming is the biggest challenge for the Linux community, majority of casual users will find Linux as a good alternative to their computing needs.
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What's more, in my country (Poland) people behave like Mac is the best they can buy. Some time ago I was thinking, that only American people are up to Apple so much, but now I know many people that are eager to have what Apple produces (for example they watch Apple events online and they think that getting rid of mini-jack is great).
I already know 2 people that switched to Apple products recently because of Microsoft actions, and I am the only one around my friends and colleagues from work who uses Linux daily.
What's more - there is a software (for example Photoshop) that people use daily and can use on Mac, while they cannot use on Linux. Such a small things matter.
And while I love the work done by Feral, Aspyr, VP and all the studios that work on in-house ports of games, I guess gaming market is not the only one that needs to see need to provide their software for us, Linux users.
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I see what you mean and on mobile side of things it really doesn't matter that much whether you have an open or closed environment that much... However on desktop it does and it matters much because our PCs are supposed to be private machines that you use for your work... even apple doesn't force their users to update their system if they don't wish to and in Linux they have full freedom over their PC, however distros like Mint do things for them if they don't wish to spend hours on setting their OS to fit their needs, it's a nice "plug and play" distro. What Microsoft is doing with forced upgrades and updates is just the violation of everything that makes PC your own and whether people will choose to go with Linux or Mac (if they have the money) doesn't really matter because if there is concurrence and a few operating systems that are competent to each other and share some nice slice of a marketshare than companies need to work in order to provide their software and services on many platforms. For example Microsoft have decided to revive the Skype for Linux project and is now in open alpha version, they did not do it because they care about Linux users or because they want to support Linux desktop growing, the reason is that there is a lot of cross-platform chatting and video-calling services that already have full cross-platform capabilities and they had to do it in order to stay on that market otherwise they would be slowly replaced by hangouts and similar services.
Also if people switch to MacOS initially they are more likely to switch to Linux afterwards because these 2 systems are more alike than Windows and Linux. We need more great companies like Valve and Feral, also if Adobe decided to release Adobe CC for Linux it would be a huge dealbreaker for a lot of users that use their products but like to have their own and free OS.
And this is where you are wrong
People (especially casual users) won't switch to linux because they simply don't care.
Apple has a wonderfull way of brainwash..erm.. marketing :D
Most people simply buy a computer that has an OS pre installed, if they hate windows so much that they choose another OS, it wil be MacOS on an Apple computer.
Just look at your family / friends and tell me how many of those are willing to buy a computer OS free and manually install linux on that.
For the majority of people the computer just has to *work* without messing around with it. So even the people that do manually install linux will run into problems that will eventually make them go back to windows or MacOS because when they use that, things simply work as they should.
Linux (desktop) has a LONG way to go before it becomes an acceptable alternative for most people (think screen tearing, soundcard or very specific hardware, wireless printers, external HDD or a second HDD that needs to be mounted on boot [manually editing fstab anyone?] drivers for keyboards/mice and lets not forget the most important one.. Microsoft Office)
*edit*
even if the above named problems are not a problem for you (they aren't for me) they are for a LOT of people