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Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 23 hours ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev
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https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america/#monthly-200901-202607

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP

Cloudflare stats also seem to support peaks of 15% usage but around 9-10% on average.

The trendline suggests this is just the start.

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[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 7 points 21 hours ago

Windows says fuck you, buy more.

(And also the new hardware is 10x more expensive because our AI division already bought it all. But fuck you, buy more anyway.)

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