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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers
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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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I demand heckin' sources for that claim.
Here at home two computers change from windows to linux in the past couple months. Windows isn't coming back 🤗
I swapped 4.
Household doesnt run a windows device. They f'ed up real bad with win 11.
I switched all my daily use PCs to Linux in 2004 and haven’t looked back. I did have a Plex server running on Windows 10 for about a year but even that has moved to an unRAID server.
Yrah, but that's what they said about Windows ME.....and Vista.....and Windows 8......and now 11.
Microsoft learns from their mistakes. It's what helps them to make sure they make all new mistakes.
What concerns me is that ever since XP, every "good" release is worse than the last good release.
I think this is still good to see. People on the edge of switching operating systems might see 10% market share on linux and finally give it a chance. It would be pure herd mentality but anything to get people off of Microslop.
Home had 4 windows machines a year ago. Now 1 windows machine, a raspberry pi, and 4 linux machines... reckon theres still a real move under the data. Ai may be part but its not all or most.
Here's the truth of the matter. As a server, Linux runs the show. As a desktop, Linux is basically little league.
There is some growth, but it's not people getting fed up with microsoft. The real growth comes from Valve.
Despite it's apperance, SteamOS is considered a linux desktop, and it's driving growth on linux. I don't think it's up to 10%, considering 2 years ago it was at an all time high of 4%. But I can believe it's at 6%. And even that would be considered tremendous growth. 4% in 30 years, but 2% more in 2 more years? That's huge.
I keep seeing the same story about linux. People are gaming on steamos, or bazzite, and they have to keep a windows installation on the other partition because select games have anti-cheat that 100% does not work on linux.
But here's the better news. Console games are dying.
This propaganda was brought to you by Microslop. Seriously though, as there is with all propaganda there is likely some truth to it, but I think the majority are real users. The winds are changing, and Microsoft is afraid.
While this sounds like cope, I'm leaning towards believing it. Firefox also just saw a 50% increase in users... Or the data got messed up in some way that nobody else (including Mozilla themselves) is able to detect and report.
Organic Linux usage jumping a full 100% seems even less likely.
Chrome also implemented its adblock restrictions.
The bot argument is valid but the OS X thing could just be because most browsers on macOS report “Mac OS X” in the User-Agent string for compatibility (and 10.15 as the version regardless of the actual OS version, for privacy reasons).
Only windows device in the house is my work computer, which is mandated to have it for specific company demands.
Everything in the house otherwise is some nature of Unix.
I'd be willing to bet enough Linux users use anti-fingerprinting tools to make the statistics super inaccurate anyway.
Haha
windowslatest.com. domain checks out.
ofc they would say that
They’re probably right though.
They said it because it happens to be true. We will all die of old age without Linux desktop seeing a legitimate double-digit share.