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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/
Windows LatestLinux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbersNo, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died, because the entire spike appears to be driven by AI bots. Almost every month, we […]
Sludge@Sludge@sh.itjust.works

Replying to @⁨Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de⁩

For the arch machine, not a chance. For the fedora silver blue machine? Yeah the process was super easy. The hardest part was probably getting the iso on a USB stick, but my wife walked through the initial setup with me via the GUI installer. It was no harder and much faster than a Windows install via a USB stick.

I don’t think my mom could do it solo.

Regardless, it’s pretty much set it and forget it, so if I’m visiting - could setup in 20 minutes and from that point onward no intervention required from me.

It’s not rocket science but I get that some people will just want to use whatever is pre installed or whatever was configured for them.

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