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Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why
www.techspot.com/news/113326-linux-cracked-10-desktop-usage-north-america-but.html
TechSpotLinux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure whyThe shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while macOS saw only limited movement over the...
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
“bUt nO oNe’S sUrE wHy”
Meanwhile at Microsoft:
“Stop using Windows 10. We lied and made Windows 11. It’s all AI bullshit that we will Cortana in 2 years. Please scan your face and taint to login.”
Microsoft FEELS and ACTS like they have a monopoly.
They do not have a monopoly.
People can use Linux. So they are using Linux. Now up to 10% from 5% at the end of last year.
If Microslop doesn’t start making business decisions based in actual reality, then Linux user share is going to hit 20-30% of NA by early next year at the current growth rate.
Replying to @EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
I think MS doesn’t care about home users anymore. Azure, Office, Enterprise setups etc. are more profitable. Server core licensing alone is ridiculous; you can license whole departments of personal machines with the price of a datacenter license.
Replying to @Randelung@lemmy.world
Enterprise is ditching windows overseas and once enough of them do, windows is no longer the common ground buisness need to do anything. It’s an expensive outlier.