No, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died, because the entire spike appears to be driven by AI bots. Almost every month, we […]
  • Methio@jlai.lu
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    29 days ago

    Just note how the guy starts with “only Microsoft numbers can be trusted” is biased bullshit. Pretending a company will give true numbers at all time, is a big lie. If anything they will inflate numbers and they’d try to hide the truth as much as they can because investors are watching.

    While there will be truth in bots taking a part of the traffic, the whole article is Microsoft bootlicker talk.

    Taking another random tool that seems to filter bot for results is just him trying to get a confirmation for his bias.

    Yes a 10% stat at a given time by a given measurement tool, is not equal to a true 10% userbase. Yes there are bots. Yes there are Linux and Windows zombies alike.

    Still, linux desktop is going up, with a fraction of the marketing power Windows and Apple have.

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    28 days ago

    What I read is a whole lot of vagueness and assumptions and so n so…

    Anecdotal evidence doesn’t count but Ima use this one today: I know a guy.

    Not a super tech wizard in the slightest but works with pc’s, recently told me he joined the linux camp with bazzite. I think we here on the fediverse all probably know someone who recently switched through proton/bazzite or mint/ubuntu …

    And those might not all stick around, but some will.

    As long as MS keeps shooting themselves in the foot and showing their allegiance to drumpelstilskin and company I’d like to think people are going to take notice.

    It’s not gonna be that old lady next door but her grandson at some point probably will be coming across linux at some point.

    • Widukin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Just shutdown my PS5 for good until it will be moddable, and upgraded my mid-tier PC and switched to Bazzite to use it as a game console. After getting used to the new OS, everythings been flawless so far, I’m happy I’ve made the switch.

  • brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de
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    29 days ago

    There are thousands of organizations that rely on Microsoft for their office suite, Outlook, Teams and these companies have thousands of PCs. They can mandate what update will get pushed, restrict admin access, running monitoring tools etc… These are hard to replace.

  • novafunc@discuss.tchncs.de
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    29 days ago

    Overall probably closer to the truth.

    I wish people didn’t obsess over these large numbers as much. Like when Linux suddenly hit 5% on Steam when that was clearly just an outlier and was destined to fall right back down.