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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:

After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.

Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it's growing fast.

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

dual booting would be a pain in the ass, both setting it up and post-setup

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dual booting is dumb easy with most Linux installers. I've been dual booting two different Linux partitions for years.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you use different harddrives for your partitions? Because that might be the reason you dont have that much problems. From what I heard windows likes to wipe all boot entries that aren't windows and are located on the same drive.

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Nope same hard drive, but windows hasn't touched my PC in nearly a decade, so that's probably why I never have issues.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Setup is piss easy, just hit install. The real pain is the random Windows update that will wipe all boot entries that aren’t Microsoft’s

[–] Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

That was the conclusion that pushed me over.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think the best solution is to just have Windows on other drive, that way it shouldn't touch Linux drive's bootloader.