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I love how you have to fabricate restrictions just to make Windows win.

Hey if desktop Linux wasn't complete rubbish then Windows wouldn't dominate the desktop market.

First, nobody said anything about "desktop operating systems", the discussion is about operating systems, full stop.

No. The quoted figures are clearly for desktop operating systems. Perhaps simple math escapes you but if Windows 10 has 43.62% of the market and Windows 7 has 36.52% of the market then there wouldn't be much left over for operating systems like Android would there?

Second, Android can easily and effectively be used as a desktop OS.

But nobody does that.

Third, the troll specifically said "Linux", not Ubuntu, not Mint, not any traditional desktop operating system, just Linux, which is the core of many operating systems.

Yes Linux, in the context of a discussion and marketshare numbers specifically on desktop operating systems. The numbers make it pretty unequivocal.

Anything below Edge - at its 4.3% market share - I can understand dropping support for. Firefox is a curious one, though... I guess Microsoft decided that IE and Chrome are 75% of the market, that's good enough to start with!

I don't think any of the forkers can realistically compete at that level because browsers are too gargantuan in complexity. To get a new browser takes a behemoth like google to advertise the browser lots or leverage other popular things like OS or search. Facebook could probably do it but I wouldn't touch a browser made by them with a barge pole.

https://netmarketshare.com/bro...

That site is a block of JS.

For the first hits (for me) it wasn't. But now is.

It's not very easy to find an alternative...

Another try:

https://netmarketshare.com/ope...

I think you're confused or merely trolling. Sadly, your misinformation could have been corrected in less than 5s via any common search engine indicating just how truly poor your knowledge is.

While Microsoft was fighting to limit Linux on the desktop, Linux did an endrun around Microsoft and owned the smartphone market in the form of Android, not to mention the data center, hosting, HPC and webserver markets. Bad luck Microsoft.

In spite of Microsoft skullduggery, Linux is still growing on the desktop in terms of absolute numbers. Now over 2% in browser share.

Nobody but the millions of Mac and iOS users.

It's just single-digit market share, so might as well just ignore them for now...

It's nearly 600 Million users across macOS and iOS.

Sorry, that's enough.

I think your 30% is overrated; 9% is closer to the truth... In actuality, anything other than iOS is irrelevant to Apple, with iOS and related services/products comprising about 88% of all Apple revenue.

Nobody but the millions of Mac and iOS users.

It's just single-digit market share, so might as well just ignore them for now...

No, it's not. It has less than 9% market share. Not even double digits. Windows has ten times that amount, owning nearly 90% of the entire market. There is, in fact, only a single major OS in desktop - all others are small, specialty offerings.

And if you want to discount mobile, that's fine - then it's just Windows as the only major OS in the world. If you want to include mobile, then it's a duopoly - Windows and Android (which also has a Windows-like market penetration with iOS a vastly far behind 2nd place).

according to this, there isnt a whole lot of OSX / IOS safari users.

https://www.netmarketshare.com...?

on the desktop windows is like 88% with OSX being arond 9% (still much higerh then the "linux weirdos" as was posted earlier.

on mobile devices, android is 70% vs 26% ios.

Clearly no one "wants" to use Edge.. unfortuntly like all instances of windows, there really isnt a way to uninstall that peice of crap.

Net Marketshare has them hovering around double that. I prefer checking there than statcounter because, like many other Firefox-users, statcounter is blocked on my browser for hosting 3rd-party trackers. That fact that it relies on commonly-blocked trackers for its stats probably explains why it rates Firefox lower than other stats sites.

Whatever program you are using, neckbeard, talking to whatever computer, if you want to tweak a device without moving your dimply behind into very close physical proximity of the device in question, you must allow remote access of some sort — that is, as you put it, expose something to the "wild wild web". That's a given and unavoidable risk inherent in the requirement.

The entire conversation is about mitigating this risk — such as by using a more secure protocol or a more reliable device.

My preference is ssh-ing into a FreeBSD computer behind the router — because I trust ssh and FreeBSD more than I trust router-makers. Most people, yourself included by all appearances, use Windows at home, and I struggle trying to understand, why you'd prefer trusting Windows over the router firmware...

Whatever your personal preference, the use-case I described remains valid.

Windows 8 (the sucky one, not the totally awesome Windows 8.1) has an equal market share to Linux Desktop users. Windows 8.1 has 4x the userbase, Windows 10 has 20x the userbase, and Windows 7 has about 30x the market share of Desktop Linux.

The unspoken truth in this article is that marketplace doesn't care about Linux, with it's 1.6% market share compared to Windows 88% market share and Mac's 8%.

Source

It's not as simple as that. Suppose I'd built some Mac software at the time I built my NT 4.0 binaries in 1997.

At that point I'd have been building a 32 bit 68K and PowerPC binary for MacOs 8.x.

For the first few releases of OS X my code could have run in the Classic Environment. That is no longer supported.

Then I'd have had to move to Carbon, which requires code changes.

Since then support for Carbon has been drooped so I'd need to move to Cocoa. More changes.

At some point I'd need to have moved from PowerPC to Intel. More changes.

And finally support for 32 bit binaries is being killed off, so I'd need more changes to get my code to build for 64 bit.

I.e. to keep my application running I'd have had to make at least four sets of changes.

Meanwhile with Windows I can run literally the same binary I compiled in 1997. It's Win32 x86 code. In fact a few of the things I wrote needed Admin rights. Since I wanted them to work in corporate environments where not everyone is Admin they actually work OK on a machine with UAC - they say you need Admin rights to run, so you run them from an Admin command prompt.

The GUI ones look at bit dated, but that's because Windows runs them with the old version of the Common Controls. If I added a manifest they'd look pretty modern. And of course running old code with an old version of the common controls is something MS do to increase the likelihood of it working.

Compare that to multiple changes of instruction set and API for an equivalent Apple utility. Plus of course there are lot more Windows machines than Macs. About 10x now and it was up to 20x in the past.

https://www.netmarketshare.com...

So for Mac you have to do more busy work because Apple keep killing off legacy features in return for a 10x smaller market. And you need to keep buying Macs to support the latest OS so you can run the latest development environment and do that busy work.

In fact the development environment has changed at least once in that time too.

Adobe Photoshop was aimed at Carbon. John Nack at Adobe explained why Photoshop wouldn't be 64 bit on Mac at the same time it was 64 bit on Windows

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Basically Photoshop was a Carbon App. Apple had been telling Adobe that Carbon would be able to run 64 bit applications and but when they went to the WWDC they heard from the stage that Carbon 64 had been cancelled. In the comments you read a lot of people flaming Adobe for sticking to an old API but one comment that points out that moving a large application from CodeWarrior to XCode is not easy and you need to do that to port from Carbon to Cocoa -

This is one of the very few areas where I simply cannot fault Adobe management in any way. To the general public, and to younger Mac developers who jumped on board after the iPod, it may seem as though they've been dragging their feet all this time, but the reality is that Apple has hasn't expressed much interest in supporting the efforts of third-party developers since the NeXT buyout, and Adobe engineers had every reason to reject the grossly inferior tools they were being offered every step of the way.

First they killed CFM in favor of Mach-O; not because it made any sense at the time, but because Avie stood to profit from Mach-O's adoption. Remember how CFM had all that multi-ISA support in there? Wouldn't that have come in handy during the Intel transition? I personally thing it might have, but I'm not in a position to look at Rosetta's code and offer anything resembling an educated opinion--just uneducated speculation.

Then they gave Mike Ferris free reign over the amount of turd polish that would be applied to Proje

I'd like to know why Slashdot is posting blatantly false information. NetMarketshare shows Windows 7 at a healthy 44.81% and Windows 10 at an anemic 28.19% market share.

Why should anyone trust a Microsoft marketing company like StatCounter over something much more reputable?

Point taken.

I normally use this site however, they used to show the Microsoft Windows breakdown (it was about 46% Win 7 last I looked), now it just shows Windows. I wonder why?

The sad thing is even though Apple sell about 15% of phones and about 8% of desktops everyone else seems to think if they copy Apple they'll sell more stuff.

It never seems to occur to them that when people buy an Android or Windows device instead of an Apple one, it might be because they don't like the way Apple do stuff and therefore copying Apple is not a good idea.

The problem is all the tech journalists are Apple fanboys and if they see other platforms copying Apple they shower them with praise. And then keep buying only Apple stuff.

PS: I have never used Apple products myself (and bear in mind that I am a programmer who has developed software under many different conditions with caring too much about specific environments, but who happen to have never dealt with Apple-related anything!), apparently they only have 8% of desktop market share and, although there is a relevant number of Apple-related articles here lately, the Slashdot crowd seems to be mostly focused on Linux (or even Windows before Apple). Why even mentioning Apple under a priori so Apple-unfriendly conditions? Please, don't take this comment bad, I am just highlighting an issue which I found quite curious.

I mentioned Apple because, to my knowledge, they are the only manufacturer that automatically pushes BIOS updates down to any machine. If you custom built the hardware and are running Ubuntu, you do not have to worry about automatically getting the microcode update from Intel.

PS: I have never used Apple products myself (and bear in mind that I am a programmer who has developed software under many different conditions with caring too much about specific environments, but who happen to have never dealt with Apple-related anything!), apparently they only have 8% of desktop market share and, although there is a relevant number of Apple-related articles here lately, the Slashdot crowd seems to be mostly focused on Linux (or even Windows before Apple). Why even mentioning Apple under a priori so Apple-unfriendly conditions? Please, don't take this comment bad, I am just highlighting an issue which I found quite curious.

Chrome isn't quite IE6 at the height of its power, but its close. On the desktop, Microsoft was actually their main competitor. But then Microsoft launched Edge and it was a crushing blow to Microsoft's market share.

2 Years ago, MS still held an incredible 50% of desktop browser share:
https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=201/
Now, they are down to 20%:
https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0/

Despite being literally shoved into users faces, the introduction of Edge didn't draw users away from Chrome. No, it seemed to send IE users running to it instead.
Chrome now has a commanding presence on desktop and we've already seen Google start to flex their muscle a bit in the same way Microsoft did when they controlled the world with IE. Make no mistake, Google has nowhere near that level of stranglehold but since the vast majority of browsers are Chrome they are the big dog now and they can get away with a lot biting.

Chrome isn't quite IE6 at the height of its power, but its close. On the desktop, Microsoft was actually their main competitor. But then Microsoft launched Edge and it was a crushing blow to Microsoft's market share.

2 Years ago, MS still held an incredible 50% of desktop browser share:
https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=201/
Now, they are down to 20%:
https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0/

Despite being literally shoved into users faces, the introduction of Edge didn't draw users away from Chrome. No, it seemed to send IE users running to it instead.
Chrome now has a commanding presence on desktop and we've already seen Google start to flex their muscle a bit in the same way Microsoft did when they controlled the world with IE. Make no mistake, Google has nowhere near that level of stranglehold but since the vast majority of browsers are Chrome they are the big dog now and they can get away with a lot biting.

About an 11:1 ratio of Windows to OSX. It's not like people have NOT heard of OSX or Macs, they have exposure. It's just that so much works well on Windows. Yes, yes - heretic and all - but try to do advanced engineering on a Mac and NOT run Bootcamp or parallels. 3D parametric CAD, schematic capture/PCB layout, embedded dev kits for DSPs - all run on Windows, not OSX.

Doubled and yet still only barely at 1% marketshare! Great success!

How about 2.98% . Sure it may not be much when compared to Microsoft's dominance but that still translates to ten's of millions. Anyway if you look at the smartphone market Android which has a Linux kernel dominates with around 85% market share and that translates to hundreds of millions.

If you look at the predominate operating system kernel for supercomputers Linux comes in at almost 100%. The main reasons why Microsoft dominates the desktop is predominately what is known as the "Microsoft Tax: and the intransigence of the average person to move to a different operating system once they have started to use the "default" operating system. A bit like some religions. :-)

No monopoly in search? Really? Google has something like 80% market share globally - that looks like a monopoly to me [source: https://www.netmarketshare.com...

there is almost no barrier to creating a new search engine

Yep, no barrier, except maybe millions of dollars and years of development work, oh and millions more in servers to actually crawl the Internet. Oh, and then somehow you've got to prize people away from their default browsers, 'mind share', phones and whatever else. Seems like small-potatoes to me too.

Google is completely up front about what they do with the data people freely give them.

Well, I'd disagree because people aren't aware of what they're giving google, and aren't aware of the ways it gets used either. "We use it to target ads at you" really doesn't do justice to the amount of data they scoop up and how much 'mining' they do on your data and how they use that data to influence you in various ways.

Google is how ever a monopolist in advertising

There we agree, although until recently Yahoo actually had a larger advertising network than Google. The critical difference is of course that Yahoo's network didn't extend to the search results page on Google search. Once you needed to use Google to put ads on that one page, it was easy to put them elsewhere too. One could argue that Google used their search dominance to gain advertising market share, which is really what happened but would be hard to prove sufficiently clearly in any legal proceedings unless you happen to get a dump of Google's internal email over the last 10 years or something.

Firefox's 2% or 3% of the market doesn't matter at all.

Firefox is currently the 3rd most popular, with 13% market share. source.

Actually, if you compare October 2015 https://www.netmarketshare.com... to September 2017 https://www.netmarketshare.com... it looks like most of the IE users left for Chrome and basically none of them moved to Edge.

Actually, if you compare October 2015 https://www.netmarketshare.com... to September 2017 https://www.netmarketshare.com... it looks like most of the IE users left for Chrome and basically none of them moved to Edge.

It already kind of is. On the desktop, Microsoft was actually their main competitor. But then Microsoft launched Edge and like most new Microsoft products it was a crushing blow to Microsoft:

2 Years ago, MS still held an incredible 50% of desktop browser share:
https://www.netmarketshare.com...

Now, they are down to 20%
https://www.netmarketshare.com...

Despite being literally shoved into users faces, the introduction of Edge didn't draw users away from Chrome. No, it seemed to send IE users running to it instead.

Chrome now has a commanding presence on desktop and we've already seen Google start to flex their muscle a bit in the same way Microsoft did when they controlled the world with IE. Make no mistake, Google has nowhere near that level of stranglehold but since the vast majority of browsers are Chrome they are the big dog now and they can get away with a lot biting.

It already kind of is. On the desktop, Microsoft was actually their main competitor. But then Microsoft launched Edge and like most new Microsoft products it was a crushing blow to Microsoft:

2 Years ago, MS still held an incredible 50% of desktop browser share:
https://www.netmarketshare.com...

Now, they are down to 20%
https://www.netmarketshare.com...

Despite being literally shoved into users faces, the introduction of Edge didn't draw users away from Chrome. No, it seemed to send IE users running to it instead.

Chrome now has a commanding presence on desktop and we've already seen Google start to flex their muscle a bit in the same way Microsoft did when they controlled the world with IE. Make no mistake, Google has nowhere near that level of stranglehold but since the vast majority of browsers are Chrome they are the big dog now and they can get away with a lot biting.

Are you doing the retard thing and including phones, tablets, watches and any other thing you can throw in to try and make the numbers look worse?

Even if you do that it's still ~40%, level with Android

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-m...

If you could just desktop systems it's ~90%

https://www.netmarketshare.com...

You'd think a sane company would be happy to be producing an OS which is still on something like 90% desktop/laptop market share.

https://www.netmarketshare.com...

Of course if you go to somewhere like statcounter you find that mobiles have taken over from desktops/laptops and if you count all devices you find that Windows is basically neck and neck with Android with iOS and MacOS following up a long way behind. I.e. the move from desktops/laptops to phones/tablets has not been good for Microsoft who managed to go from 10% or so market share with Windows Mobile to 0% with Windows Phone.

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-m...

And Metro was an attempt to mix up the popular desktop Windows with the aggressively unpopular Windows Phone. And the end result seems to be that Windows Phone is dead and desktop Windows is dying.

And of course when it comes to servers the world has moved to Linux.

The problem with charging more for high end desktop systems is that they run the risk of simply moving those systems to Mac of Linux, just like Metro and the Start Screen didn't make Windows phone more popular, it made desktop Windows less popular.

Microsoft now are a bit like IBM were after IBM lost control of the PC market. They'll embrace open systems, try to launch new and more proprietary alternatives to the market leader etc. Windows Phone could be considered the Microsoft version of the PS/2 and MCA - i.e. attempt to move people from the cheap, somewhat crappy but multi vendor market leader (PC clones/Android phones) to a system which could only be bought from them.

I.e. a whole host of ways to avoid irrelevance. However I think irrelevance is probably the end result.

And it's a shame really. I like my Macbook, but it was noticeably more expensive than an equivalent machine running Windows. And now Macbooks have become the default in so many environments - education, media. startups and especially app development for Android and iOS - it's become harder to think different as it were when buying a new laptop. I.e. all Microsoft have achieved by running Windows into the ground is that people spend an extra $500 or so on a new laptop because they need a Mac to be able to develop for the two platforms, iOS and Android, where people actually make any money out of apps.

According to this not that surprised.

Presumably they'll go from supporting Windows 10,8,7 instead of 10,8,7,Vista,XP and retire their Vista and XP test systems. XP has about 5.69% market share right now, about the same as Windows 8.1.

https://www.netmarketshare.com...

Using that logic and your source, Mozilla should also stop supporting Linux and OSX. :-P

Exactly. If you officially support a platform it means you need to run your tests on it. Which takes extra time. Presumably they'll go from supporting Windows 10,8,7 instead of 10,8,7,Vista,XP and retire their Vista and XP test systems. XP has about 5.69% market share right now, about the same as Windows 8.1.

https://www.netmarketshare.com...

On the other it's getting a bit hairy to run XP test systems because there are no security patches and no Microsoft Security Essentials. So you basically need to wall them off from the Internet. In which case how many people are really downloading new browsers for them...

The intro says Firefox is little more than a rounding error of use, but August 2017 stats have it at 12% (only slightly behind IE) on desktop.

Windows 7 has 49.04% marketshare, as of "June, 2017".

no I didnt make them up, someone else did

https://www.netmarketshare.com...

91.5% of users on Windows isn't that surprising, the real fun stat will be how many are on 10.

Windows worked really hard to shove that down peoples throats weather they wanted it or not. I bet adoption numbers are lower than MS wants by a lot.

Currently Windows 10 is 26.8% compared to Windows 7 at 49.04%. What is surprising is Windows XP is at 6.94% while Windows 8.1 is at 6.4 and Windows 8 is at 1.37%. Check out the following site for more information on Linux (2.36%) and Mac (3.49%). Actually, the site is worth bookmarking since it can usually settle or create arguments pretty quickly. :)

Windows XP has about the same market share as all of OSX. The question is why wouldn't they offer it, since it equals their nearest rival in its entirety? If you can be the distant second place runner with your old OS that supports legacy hardware, why not?

It's pretty easy to hit that milestone when you force people to upgrade without their consent. Don't get me wrong - I have Windows 10 on both my desktop (dual boot) and personal laptop; I have it on one of my work laptops (the other is Windows 7/Linux dual boot). I'm probably one of the few people who like it, but I don't pretend like what MS didn't wasn't disgraceful.

It is funny how Microsoft announces the Windows 10 adoption when other sites state that Windows 10 is still around 26% with Windows 7 (48.5%) and other versions of Windows including "XP", 8.0 and 8.1 taking 15.58%. It appears Microsoft only give out figures if it suits them.

The information I have given was in April 2017.

BTW. All my computing devices have a Linux kernel. I don't run Microsoft anything although to be fair I have Windows 10 in a virtual machine and all up I have run that operating system for about an hour. Windows 10 does love to chat with machines that are owned by Microsoft (Wireshark is great) and that was when I thought I had the OS locked down.

Knowledge gap? You know this because you had the knowledge I didn't?

How's that work?

I was there.

I fixed it.

I doubt Goodwill had any takers on that Apple crap.

Reach much?

And yet the iPad still outsells all the Surface models and all Android tablets.

Only because apple users that already have an apple tablet buy more apple tablets. If you look at what's in use out there, apple is not #1. https://www.netmarketshare.com...

>> Except that Android is nowhere near being king of tablets. It is not even close to being 2nd.
B.S.
Android is powering 62-68% of tablets.
Source :
https://www.statista.com/stati...
https://www.netmarketshare.com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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https://www.netmarketshare.com...

The netmarketshare Linux share increased by a factor of 1.13 since the July article.

M$ is pretty much killing itself in the consumer market and is rapidly reaching the point of no return and perhaps even crossed over.

Windows (all versions): 85% and stable
OS X: 11%
Linux: 1.5%
Misc (possibly mis-ID as desktop): 2.5%

Not sure where you got those figures. Linux Desktop Market share is now at 2.27%. Not huge but definitely increasing.

One third of the 85% above is now using Win10. Half the gamers on Steam now run Win10. With Ryzen and Kaby Lake there is no Win7 support. Sorry to disappoint you, but even as people are holding on to Win7 there zero evidence of any migration away. When push comes to shove I imagine most will begrudgingly upgrade like they did with WinXP.

Again I will refer you to the URL. Windows 10 is approx 25.3% with Windows 7 approximately 47.2% and surprisingly Windows XP at 9.17%. Even Windows 8.1 is at 6.9% so that tells you how popular Windows 10 is, although as people throw away their old windows machines and purchase new ones then Windows 10 market share will increase.

In the motherboard BIOS there is an option for "Other OS" and I initially installed Fedora 24 (now 25) on the Z170 (takes Sky Lake) without any problems so I don't forsee any issues with the motherboards for Ryzen (when it comes out) or Kaby Lake which has the same LGA 1151 socket as Sky lake and will run on Z170, H170, B150 and H110 series motherboards . It will be possible to install Windows 7 (if you can get a legitimate version or do you pirate it?) under the Other OS feature but like you have said it will not be supported by Microsoft.

As far as PC games go, Microsoft Windows dominates although if you go to Steam and look at the number of games available for Linux and SteamOS there are over 5,000 and some are AAA. Good luck finding the time to play them all.

The majority of people will not upgrade to Windows 10 unless Microsoft use the same tactics when they made the OS a free upgrade if you had a legitimate copy of Windows 7 or Widows 8.1. If you wish to upgrade now you have to pay for Windows 10 and most people will not do that unless they replace their PC which in the majority of cases the new PC will come with Windows 10 as the default OS.

Ahh, but that really is not true. According to W3 Linux OS share of web browsing is around 5.7% of the market total.

And according to NetMarketShare it's just 2.27% and StatCounter pegs it at a little over 1.5%.

Of course if you actually look at how the data you reference was collected:

From the statistics below (collected from W3Schools' log-files since 2003), you can read the long term trends of operating system usage.

We can see why the data seems to contradict all other sources, and why it pegs mobile use at ~5% which is obviously not representative of broader usage whatsoever.

This seems low until you consider that People do about half of their web browsing from work, and half at home, and the business world is almost 100% PC or Mac.

Neither of those things are supported by any evidence whatsoever, but more to the point your statistics are purely computers that visit the W3Schools website. The comparatively low mobile marketshare didn't tip you off that maybe these statistics weren't representative of the real world?

Taken in that context, that 5.7% ends up being closer to 12% when you consider just home computers that visit W3Schools website.

FTFY

When taken in that context, Microsoft really only has about 75% market share on home PC's that visit W3Schools website.

FTFY again.

This trend has been slowly moving for more than a decade, and there is no reason to expect it will not continue.

No it hasn't, according to all other reputable sources that isn't true at all. macOS marketshare has risen, Linux has not.

You could try this . All up about 12.33% is not Microsoft Windows of that 2.21% in Linux, 4.14% is Mac OS and 5.98% is other. What is particularly interesting is that 48.34% still use Windows 7 and 9.07% Windows XP compared to 24.36% for Windows 10.

Is Red Hat concerned with how systemd has driven so many Linux users to FreeBSD?

Considering BSD has 0.7% server market share which actually declined by 0.2% over the past year, and unmeasurably microscopic desktop share, your loaded question has a false premise.

I'm curious your thoughts on why Linux hasn't grabbed more laptop/desktop marketshare from Windows and MacOS over the years? It seems that with the privacy concerns around Windows 10 and Apple's lack of focus on MacOS there may be a huge opportunity in the near future. What things need to happen in the consumer marketplace and within the OSS community for it to really take off? Can 2017 be the year of the Linux desktop?

It's been Linux on the desktop for me for over 10 years and that is in the Professional and home market spaces.

You've heard of the words "Microsoft Tax" haven't you? The usage of Linux has actually increased from 1.5% to 2.21% recently so a few million people are changing over. In addition the number of Steam games for Linux is over the 5,000 mark and gaming is another major reason why people aren't changing at least for the moment.

Being forced into getting Windows 10 with its privacy issues has made some users at least try Linux but the majority of people who buy a PC which comes with a Microsoft OS won't make the change since they don't care.

As for the corporate sector, there are some changes but the majority are locked into the Microsoft ecosystem.