Im guessing it was Microsoft shooting itself on the balls over and over
Comment on Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 13 hours agoWhat gave Linux a boost.
My guess is summer. Perhaps people waited until they have more time to switch from Windows to Linux. And holiday means less work computers – which are all Windows machines – being used.
Cloudflare Radar also shows a sudden jump from 3.5% to 5.5% from June 15 to June 29. It has since come down to 3.9%, which is still about 0.6 percent points higher than previous average.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
merc@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
They’ve been doing that for years, why now?
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Ran out of balls.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
They know what they have to do. Bring Ballmer out of retirement!
Thalfon@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
This was the case for me last summer. Waited until the start of break so if anything went wrong it wouldn’t be too much of a nightmare. Wouldn’t be too shocked if others took similar opportunity. Depends a bit how many people have any sort of proper summer holiday these days though.