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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today
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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/
Windows LatestLinux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbersNo, 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 […]
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Mylemmypt@Mylemmypt@lemmy.world
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Here at home two computers change from windows to linux in the past couple months. Windows isn’t coming back 🤗

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Waterpumpee@Waterpumpee@lemmus.org
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Household doesnt run a windows device. They f’ed up real bad with win 11.

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Lost_My_Mind@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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Yrah, but that’s what they said about Windows ME…and Vista…and Windows 8…and now 11.

Microsoft learns from their mistakes. It’s what helps them to make sure they make all new mistakes.

What concerns me is that ever since XP, every “good” release is worse than the last good release.

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mrnngglry@mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works
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I switched all my daily use PCs to Linux in 2004 and haven’t looked back. I did have a Plex server running on Windows 10 for about a year but even that has moved to an unRAID server.

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a_non_monotonic_function@a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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That describes many of their releases.

When I look back there’s only a handful of Windows operating systems I preferred, and some of them took quite a bit of time and a service pack or two to make that happen.

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