Linux

I remember looking at pc sales data, and they have been shrinking in the last decade, with the curve flattening until the pandemic, when sales grew substantially, almost to the 2000s level. Now it's shrinking back slowly. I'm not sure if people are abandoning desktops in favor of phones as much as we think. desktops are durable and we tend to have only one, while mobile devices are gaining different forms, and people are getting more of them. Perhaps the desktop market has not much more room to grow while mobile devices are still booming.

But that's just one possible explanation, I might be wrong. I was going to post the data, but statista requires login to see it.

And yet here I am looking to expanding my devices with a replacement server (linux) and a NUC (linux).

Finally ditched Windows on the desktop forever, about 7 months ago.

I agree with you on mobile. I my country many ppl ditched laptops and desktops for their phones.

Although I have a hard time understanding how they can actually get some work done on the phone, if they do any work from home that requires a computer. Well those ppl probably have an old laptop laying around.

It’s been a trend for quite a while for non-linux people to dump the PC entirely in favor of using just phone.

Can't do that if you play games.

Also that's half of the reason Windows hasn't lost the war on home desktop PCs yet. Another half is office applications.

Actually, these are thirds.

Another reason making me say so is that no major user-friendly distribution wants to be just that, they all have a particular madness with no good reason for it.

So I don't know what to recommend, there should be something off the top of my head, but that'd be "just install Debian, it's fine".

So, any single reason of these going away would accelerate Linux adoption notably. Any two would make it a trend visible to housewives. And all three would resemble the flight of ICQ users to Skype.