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Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25

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Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25

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Microsoft seems determined to push people away from Windows with its user-hostile tactics—built-in ads, constant nagging about Edge, and forced OneDrive backups. It's really soured my experience. I’m done with Windows personally. While I have to use Win11 at work, I won't use it anywhere I have a choice.

Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25

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One of these years, it'll be the year of the Linux desktop. Just you wait.

Fusion or ubiquitous Linux desktops (wsl does not count), which happens first?

Poland wins World Cup in football goes first in the impossible events department.

Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25

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post #3

One of these years, it'll be the year of the Linux desktop. Just you wait.

Fusion or ubiquitous Linux desktops (wsl does not count), which happens first?

WSL does count. The average Linux user doesn't know squat about how the kernel, drivers, or services work; they just like the CLI. If MS can give them enough of the Linux CLI and functioning packages to do their job, it's game over.

Re: Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25

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post #4

Microsoft seems determined to push people away from Windows with its user-hostile tactics—built-in ads, constant nagging about Edge, and forced OneDrive backups. It's really soured my experience. I’m done with Windows personally. While I have to use Win11 at work, I won't use it anywhere I have a choice.

For people who never use anything except macOS / Linux, I challenge you to install Windows and experience it for yourself. The entire OS is like surfing the internet without ad block on. The nags, the pop ups, the malware you can’t remove. It’s truly incredible how awful Windows is. They are just milking the aging demographic who still uses Windows and squeezing as many clicks out of them as they can before Windows is dead as a home OS.
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