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Unprecedented Linux Growth in Europe Amid Windows 10 End-of-Life

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Millions of people using Windows 10 are facing a tough choice. Microsoft plans to stop offering security updates for the system, leaving countless computers vulnerable. For many, upgrading to Windows 11 simply isn’t an option because their hardware isn’t new enough. This situation is pus...

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I think this is good. This means increased competition and that the none compatible Windows computers can keep running without going to the trash bin - better for the environment.

- It is already the year of the Linux Desktop for me and has been for years. Anyone who run GNU+Linux exclusively is already there.
  
  Every year is the year of the Linux desktop
  
  Me too, since 2016. I dabbled in dual-booting on and off since about 2k, but went full Linux in 2016 and have never looked back.

Living in Finland is doubly humiliating. The country where Linux started, and IT chiefs almost in every company are going "oh yeah? I'm gonna use Microsoft products even harder"
I don't like to say this about people I don't know but fucking idiots, man.

Just switched to Fedora Kinoite and I’m loving the immutability of the OS. Oh bad update? lol rollback and golden. Can’t do that shit with each bloatware force push from MS
- Been running Bazzite for a while now, and love it. Basically Kinoite but built for gaming.
  Took me a little bit to get a grasp on ostree, but I really like it.
  
  Just wanna add another Bazzite recommendation! If you're on the fence and feeling like "but my games!" - Bazzite's got your back. Shit works great.
- I mean, good thing, too. They just broke the lock screen this week. That was an annoying half an hour of troubleshooting to do in the middle of a work day.
  Pros and cons in each, I suppose.
  
  They just broke
  Who did? I didn't quite follow.

Honestly I wasn't expecting to see a significant increase. It's a nice surprise. If we get to 6-7% Linux will be much harder to ignore for software and hardware providers. Personally I'm good on software but better wifi drivers would be welcomed.

I mean, just to be clear on what
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That'd be the red line, there. Assuming you take Statcounter numbers at face value, even.
Incidentally, how have the MacOS and OSX not converged more, speaking of end of life stuff?
- Also note the drop in Chrome OS mirrors the rise in Linux so I wouldn't rule out this just being user agent changes.
  
  Statcounter is... a valid proxy, but I don't know if I trust it for fine grain changes. Big trends, maybe. Windows overall certainly seems to have lost some ground over time. Whether that's desktop PCs becoming less popular, the laptop market moving a bit towards Mac, the handheld market being weirdly represented because this only counts devices used for web browsers or whatever else is harder to parse.
- Why do they even have two lines for OS X and macOS? It's the same thing.
  
  They officially changed the name in 2016. I have to assume they changed what the browser reports earlier this year. For tracking purposes it would probably make more sense to count the ARM version separately from the Intel version, but I don't know if that's correlated to this change or what is. I'm not a MacOS user, though, so maybe the change is public knowledge and I just don't know about it.
  
  statcounter checks user agent strings. it probably depends on the mac browser used to report the user agent string.
- Thanks for the analysis!

Europe breaks their own procurement laws to choose Windows, because they are idiots.
- because they are corrupt

Nice to see the word unprecedented before some good news!
- best headline of 2025

I don't want them to, but I don't get why Microsoft don't just roll out updates the way Android/Linux do. Free. They've already adopted the Google method of moneymaking by embedding spyware into everything in the OS. Surely they could stop most of their headaches by doing that? Not that I care. Linux user here for roughly 16 years, sometimes having to go back to Windows hurts. It hurt a lot recently, having to dig out an old windows laptop to ironically install Ubuntu touch on to a phone (OnePlus Nord N10). I had tons of updates and had to install features and so much other stuff just to use it. 🤕

I'm guessing that isn't the only reason.

Unfortunately a https://xkcd.com/1102/ situation

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