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Linux Statistics 2024 - TrueList

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Some snippets from the article :

Women accounted for 9.9% of the Linux kernel Git population.
About 90% of Hollywood special effects rely on Linux.
0.44% of Steam users are playing on Linux.

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doesn't Steam Hardware Survey report way higher percentage of Linux users?
(Statista, Blackdown)
wouldn't Valve's numbers be more reliable?
- Their numbers are from 2018, wild article in my opinion, wouldn't have to be too hard to have more up-to-date numbers.
- Steam is only installed on one of my computers, I have at least four running Linux. Not to mention plenty of Linux users don't game at all, so probably not.
“96.3% of the top one million web servers are running Linux. (ZDNet)”
That right there is why Microsoft cares less and less every day about Windows, as Azure continues to grow as the company cash cow.
Their share of the 53% of “professional developers” that do not use Linux keeps them interested on the desktop.
Well, to be fair, the other reason that Microsoft still cares about Windows is that Office is their other cash cow. As more and more people move to Office 365, they will start to care less about that too ( as the web versions work great on Linux ).
The statement about Hollywood is a great one to use when telling people about Linux
- They even use System 76 hardware.
Can anyone explain the "professional developers" percentages to me?
- 1 in 2 professional developers use Linux ( many of the others probably use Macs ).
  If you are working with containers ( the cloud ), Linux is the native environment. So Linux provides a great environment for most of what is headed for AWS or Azure. If you are building websites ( eg. React ), Linux is the nicest environment to work in. Node is best on Linux. Java and Python IDEs work great on Linux. C / C++ work is often embedded with is often Linux and again the tooling works great on Linux. The more offbeat your platform choice, the more likely it is to be Linux first ( Gleam anyone? ). Even the .NET experience is great on Linux ( maybe better than Windows depending on what you are building ).

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