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- Nexus Mods retire their in-development cross-platform app to focus back on Vortex
- Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux
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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:
Spoiler, click me
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.
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)
Spoiler, click me
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
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!
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
P.S. maybe you guys can port last game from top 10 that does not support Linux :P.
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.
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.
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
Every operating system has its flaws and when people are faced with problems on Windows they know what to do and on Linux they need to learn what to do in order to fix their problems and where to search for the solutions. Please stop refering to Windows as an OS where you don't run into any driver related problems or software related problems or problems in general because I've been using it for my whole life until about 2 years ago and am very familiar with its flaws and there are a lot of them... even way more than on Linux side of things for me... with Linux sure I run into problems but after fixing them they do not reoccur on that installation where as in Windows that is not the case... from time to time something just breaks on Windows and you must reinstall eventhough you don't know why and you didn't do anything inappropriate. It's just that people know where to search for the solutions on Windows side and are so familiar with it...
And yes... Linux has a lot of room for improvement but at least has a potential... Windows doesn't have it since Microsoft will not allow it to advance, just to the point they wish it to but on the other hand restricting users from everything that makes PCs great and our own.
And about having OS preinstalled doesn't mean that you cannot switch it if you don't like it... and don't think that I was forcing Linux upon them as MS does with Win10... they came to me alone and asked how to fix smth in Win10 and I suggested them to try Linux... they have been all extremely happy with it because for non-advanced users it's enough to have Linux installation that just works and have 1 person for backup if something goes wrong... And I've always had more help from community rather than Apple or Microsoft themselves even on Windows side because they don't give a **** about their users, they're just economists.
*Edit: I was able to set my neighbour's HP Wireless printer with their proprietary Linux drivers with ease... things have started to change a lot lately on the hardware side, these are rather myths that things are mostly unfixable on Linux...
- Countless times I've seen multiple problems with Windows because of malware. As a result, people were asking me to fix a PC that was unusable because of problems with boot, problems with machine being unable to respond and stuff like this.
- 5 years ago I bought 2 laptops, very similar for me and my girlfriend (we use them now) but manufacturer provided only drivers for 32 bit systems. I've spent 2 days while looking for drivers from weird sources just to make her laptop run Windows (mine is Windows free, however there was a time that I had a Windows partition for university related stuff).
- Do you know a person that was using Windows and haven't seen BSOD (or it's newer form)? I've seen it on Windows XP, Vista, 7. I've seen newest form of BSOD on Windows 10. Windows crashes, that's a fact.
- On a PC that I used at previous work, Windows 10 had 2 issues, that were unfixable for me.
1) I had a Office 365 Business, which comes with One Drive for Business. Build in Windows 10 One Drive was crashing every 5 minutes. There was a hotfix that was fixing the issue until next update was installed. After any update issue started to appear once again.
2) Synaptics touchpad was crashing from time to time and was presenting alert about this information.
I have an impression, that I would be able to list issues for next hour. But to be fair - I have many issues on Ubuntu as well. But on Ubuntu I'm more productive and I do not rely on Microsoft.
We could all be listing our issues for hours here and we would not run out of them either for Windows or Linux but one thing is for sure... On Windows we have the experience Microsoft wants us to have and they do not even do it well (crashes, bugs...) and on Linux we depend on the community and ourselves. Microsoft on the Windows side is rather a problem than the company that provides support to their users... There was one time I've seen a question on Microsoft's official support site where a user had a hardware specific problem and first he didn't get the reply for them and later some Windows user wrote that it's due to the Microsoft's last update and suggested him to revert back to last update. He did that and things started working as they should and he thanked the user. Soon after that Microsoft staff replied with something like we are happy that with the help of community you were able to solve your problem and marked the topic as solved... How is the problem supposed to be solved if he just needed to revert updates that ruined their things??? And that was my point that Microsoft just wants marketshare and money, they don't really care about their individual users and provide close to no support by themselves...
And we don't need support like that, we're better off on our own! :)
I'm saying the average user doesnt care about the OS or problem solving.
If my aunt buys a printer and it doesnt work on windows, she can return it to the shop. she will never start troubleshooting as she simply doesnt care.
And yes, you and I can get a wireless printer or external hdd's working just fine, my aunt cant and doesnt want to mess with it either.
Saying people will just need to do some trouble shooting doesnt make a lot of sense for the average user that doesnt care about his computer, the damned thing simply needs to work.
people dont do trouble shooting on windows, those same people wont do it on linux either.
No matter how many times someone on a forum types that they just need to learn how to solve the problems themselves.
And I never refered to windows as an OS that is problem free, its a horrendous piece of shit in my eyes and it drives me insane when I'm forced to use a windows machine.
That's my point ;)
I'm not bashing linux, I'm simply shining a light on a little something called *reality*
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-os
Wikipedia page for Tracking Linux (and other OS) usage...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
linux percentages
platinum: 4/12 = 33.3%
gold: 3/12 = 25.0%
silver: 6/16 = 37.5%
bronze: 24/60 = 40%