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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)

submitted 5 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (9 children)

All my extended family has been converted to linux because all they need is a browser, libre office and rustdesk for me to tech support them. The only issue is still printers but tbh they are equally awful on all platforms these days.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 12 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I thought Linux had decent printer support compared to windows.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It does, in my experience. At least in Linux Mint.

At home, my old Brother laser is tucked off in a far corner of the house connected to wifi, and my wired home PC as well as my wifi work laptop both see it and can print to it just fine.

At work even those big printers show up and function.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kubuntu LTS works pretty damn near out-of-the-box as well.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Mint is based on ubuntu so that makes sense to me!

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