According to the StatCounter, Linux on the desktop has continued to rise and remains above 4%, with this being the healthiest it's ever looked on the desktop.
This is a huge advantage PC users have over Chromebook and Apple users. If you buy a Chromebook, you are locked into that ecosystem and there are very few models that allow you to overwrite ChromeOS without breaking it. Apple computers are another ecosystem that also lock you into their environment where you may have to go out of your way to heavily modify it to even get close to Windows or Linux.
But with PC? People can freely tell Windows to fuck off, get Linux and the sacrifices will be minimal.
This is a huge advantage PC users have over Chromebook and Apple users. If you buy a Chromebook, you are locked into that ecosystem and there are very few models that allow you to overwrite ChromeOS without breaking it. Apple computers are another ecosystem that also lock you into their environment where you may have to go out of your way to heavily modify it to even get close to Windows or Linux.
But with PC? People can freely tell Windows to fuck off, get Linux and the sacrifices will be minimal.