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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS (www.webpronews.com)
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[-] blarghly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

No, because the "surge" in market share is almost certainly driven not by the average user's love of open source software, but by the average user simply letting their laptop die as they switch to phones and tablets as their sole computing devices. Windows users aren't becoming Linux users. They are becoming Android users.

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