2025 Won't Be The Year Of The Linux Desktop Either. So What?
How-To Geek, Monday, January 6th, 2025
If you're still waiting for the Year of the Linux desktop, give up. Linux is never going to threaten Windows' desktop share. The good news is, for Linux, that's a pointless metric.
2024 wasn't the fabled Year of the Linux desktop and, spoiler alert, neither will 2025. Globally, Linux only just breaks the four percent mark of desktop operating systems
Linux will never threaten Windows' dominance of the desktops. Even with the roll-out of Windows 11 rendering a lot of hardware Windows-obsolete, there hasn't been a tidal wave of users abandoning Windows and moving to Linux, even though their hardware would run Linux just fine. A few will have migrated to Linux, for sure, but they're already included in the four-point-something adoption figure. And that's Linux's highest percentage of desktop share to date.