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.
there’s a lot of stuff that is supported and with the uptake rising hopefully more applications will have Linux versions soon. otherwise, I’ve found it relatively easy to just have a Windows drive that I can switch over to in case I need to use something, and Linux for daily use aside from that