According to Statcounter, which should be taken with a pinch of salt of course like any sampling, the Linux share on the desktop hit nearly 4% in Decemeber 2023.
  • pastaPersona@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    Would be so surreal to start seeing commercials for Linux (as a desktop), OEM machines being sold w/ Linux at big stores and so on.

    It’s been like 30 years of Windows being the majority at this point and it just keeps getting buggier and more user hostile every year, a paradigm shift is very much needed IMO.

  • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I just built a new PC for our family room, and I had planned on making it Linux only…until I found out my son wouldn’t be able to play the full version of Minecraft without a convoluted workaround.

    • RagingToad@feddit.nlEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      Wait, what? I play a lot of Minecraft on linux. Java version works perfectly. (And I’ve never played bedrock, but apparently bedrock is buggy? And java is where the mod packs are)

      • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        Marketplace only works on Windows, and we’ve gotten him a couple of the packs for like Jurassic World, Sonic, etc

    • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      huh?
      that should be very easy.
      there is even an official flatpack build.

      just install flatpack (if your distro doesnt come with it preinstalled)
      and then install minecraft, and sign into your microsoft account.

    • AI_655321@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I have only played Minecraft on Linux… What needs windows? I needed to open an Xbox account to get the multiplayer to work, but I was able to do that on my android phone.