Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem
Together, Linux + ChromeOS (much closer to standard GNU+Linux than Android) have something between 6% and 7% of the desktop. I don&#x27;t remember people saying the same about MacOS when it was around that mark.<p>Of course, we must be realistic. Linux around 6% is very different from MacOS at 6%. In that case, they already had support from items people complain to this day about Linux not having; main examĺes are msoffice and photoshop.<p>Nevertheless, Linux on the desktop has never been so good. Flatpak (or even AppImages and snaps) allow me to have a &quot;stable core&quot; with recently updated software. Support for most hardware is much better now (looks like most vendors make sure the hardware supports Linux, even though they themselves don&#x27;t announce it). Pipewire and Wayland matured to the point where you can finally stream your desktop on Wayland using Pipewire. GNOME is snappier today then it was and cleaner and more elegant; of course we still need some consistency but windows suffers from that too; and, look, it even has thumbnails on the file picker! The kernel evolved to a point where desktop is just another well supported system: MGLRU and other improvements made latency on the desktop even under memory pressure just ideal.<p>The environment around it also evolved a lot. Many FLOSS software are on a quality level today that mostly only professional on almost niche areas can&#x27;t use Linux on the desktop. Consider Blender, Godot, Audacity, Inkscape, Firefox, OBS... these things are refined, stable, elegant and don&#x27;t try  to steal your attention, require periodic payments or throw ads on your face. Actually a Linux desktop user feels very sorry when they see a &quot;standard&quot; windows user. And I&#x27;m not even talking about proton or areas where Linux leads or is well established.<p>So yes, it improved. Nevertheless, I&#x27;d love to, but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll see Linux on the desktop beat windows or MacOS. But, know one thing: I don&#x27;t care. Linux on the desktop has been good enough for me for a very long time and it will only get better. I just hope someday its market share will be big enough for it to no longer be ignored by so many vendors. Watching current growth, I don&#x27;t think that is too far anymore now.