Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
The only problem with personal computing was that it was too flexible and expandable. Far better to have 8 sort of ok at some things and good at one thing devices that last 3-5 years instead.