[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h...
I've been seeing this sentiment since 2001 at least. No one ever follows through; if they did we would have seen this already in the desktop stats.
You will, whether you consciously realise it or not, switch to playing windows exclusive games the minute all your games run on Linux, hence you will never switch.
There has been an inflection point crossed lately, because of Proton and the Steam Deck. Linux is at 1.95% market share on Steam today. A year ago it was 1.3%.
You may as well say "but the sky is blue", which is also true and just as irrelevant
Well you can see it. Linux is used by 4.25% of all English speaking Steam users. And its trending upward.
It is not a statistic of Linux desktop share, it's a statistic of existing Linux users, not windows migrations.
Yes it is. The Y axis is "Percentage of Steam users". The fact that the Linux percentage is increasing means that the the percentage of Windows users are decreasing. The graph shows a trend of migrating from Windows to Linux.
"% of desktops amongst Steam users" is significantly different from "% of desktops".
(And yes, this excludes ChromeOS and Android)
Those of us who used it on desktop Linux helped drive the handheld, which is really accelerating compatibility. When Windows 10 hits EOL, folks got to go somewhere - and many are not going to toss out their hardware for new.
You can buy Windows 10 Pro OEM licenses for less than 20€ online. I did just that for a familiar three months ago. The installation was validated and associated with the Microsoft account no problem.
Then you can "upgrade" to Windows 11 free of charge, if that's your thing.