Quoting: GrazenHere's a worthwhile mental check (though admittedly anecdotal). Go to a local coffee shop. Look around. How many people are on Windows? How many on OSX or iOS? How many on Linux? Now, ChromeOS might bump it up a bit if it's counted as a Linux distro, but if Linux has surpassed OSX, the evidence would be all around us.

I would think that most of the laptops seen in coffee shops are company issued (=Mac/Windows). I find it hard to imagine that someone would lug around home laptops in public places when more portable options for casual use exist. Then again my imagination can be very limited.

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The numbers are obviously off, but I can easily believe that Linux desktop usage is on the rise. This has nothing to do with sudden great improvements to Linux, but has everything to do with the lack of options. Windows 10 seems to be genuinely unpopular with its market share being stagnant for about a year now. People running older machines with Win 7/8 or older need to update them someday and many of them don't want anything to do with the cesspit of "telemetry" and forced "upgrades" that is Windows 10. It also helps that Microsoft has already started to poison the well on their older OS's too.

This is what made me to finally switch to Linux as my primary OS. I have Windows 7 partition for games, but I haven't used that for months now. Even if I want to play some Windows game, I just can't be bothered to boot there. I'll just play something from my Linux subset of games instead. It would make me really happy if this was truly the year of the Linux desktop.

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