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Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/linux@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What gave Linux a boost.

My guess is summer. Perhaps people waited until they have more time to switch from Windows to Linux. And holiday means less work computers – which are all Windows machines – being used.

Cloudflare Radar also shows a sudden jump from 3.5% to 5.5% from June 15 to June 29. It has since come down to 3.9%, which is still about 0.6 percent points higher than previous average.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP%252CbotClass%253DLIKELY_HUMAN&dt=52w

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Im guessing it was Microsoft shooting itself on the balls over and over

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They've been doing that for years, why now?

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ran out of balls.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

They know what they have to do. Bring Ballmer out of retirement!

[–] Thalfon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

This was the case for me last summer. Waited until the start of break so if anything went wrong it wouldn't be too much of a nightmare. Wouldn't be too shocked if others took similar opportunity. Depends a bit how many people have any sort of proper summer holiday these days though.