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The growth of Linux desktop marketshare, in percent of total, since 2009(sh.itjust.works)

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ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee
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Someone should add major Windows releases on the X axis. There’s gotta be some correlation.

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Jarmer@slrpnk.net
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I had dabbled in it off and on since LONG LONG ago, but I only went full time (no dual boot) since windows 11 release. So yeah, I bet there’s lots others like me.

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doughless@lemmy.world
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I had been dual booting for a while with Windows 11/Fedora until one day I needed to update the BIOS on my motherboard. Windows decided it was too big of an upgrade and wanted me to activate again. I called support, and they said that I had used up all my activations and would need to buy a new copy.

Thanks Microsoft, for helping me switch full time to Linux!

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barsquid@lemmy.world
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They force you to re-buy the same software for literally the same hardware. That’s insane.

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Grass@sh.itjust.works
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wait that’s a thing? I guess I’d never find out because I always used whatever activation method was available on MDL for each version for the odd time I used windows.

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vividspecter@lemm.ee
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That spike in 2021 looks to be around the win11 release date, although it pretty much dropped the same amount after. Does look to be a sharper trend in adoption since then, though (with all of the caveats about what the data is measuring of course).

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ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee
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Thanks! It does indeed look like people try out Linux before the new Windows release. Then it returns to the slower adoption trend.

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Zangoose@lemmy.world
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It’s also interesting because you can also see a steeper line corresponding on the “worse” windows versions (8, 11) while it’s relatively stagnant during windows 10

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miridius@lemmy.world
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Actually windows market share is growing as well. It’s MacOS that’s dropping

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