I just converted a Windows user to PopOS this week so I’m doing my part🫡
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Did M$ force more users to install windows 11 or something? What’s going on?
Btw, can somebody try and fit that curve to project when it hits 20% or something? That looks like an exponential function.
Windows 10 is going EOL in Oct of 2025
.1% gain is smashing records now?
I think the smashing records is referring to breaking record after record. I’m also curious about the absolute increase of users, 0.1% increase could be a lot of new users in just a month.
What happened around '20?
I’m asking that because, the way that I’m reading this graph, there’s a plateau between '15 and '20, and then a slope upwards.
I think it’s a combination of factors:
- Long term trend of services moving from native desktop to more web apps which incidentally improves Linux support
- Valve pushing Linux Gaming to new heights
- Flatpak reaches critical mass and shipping on multiple distros by default
- Unpopularity of the latest Windows development trends
- Average PC user becoming more technically inclined – “normal” people more likely to skip the PC and go mobile-only
…covid?
I don’t think that it’s due to COVID, as it’s an upwards slope instead of just a spike, or spike + plateau.
Covid was a time when many people had their eyes opened to big tech not having good intentions. I wouldn’t be surprised if covid did make a difference. It was a free option and people often had extra time on their hands to tinker. Lots of people changed jobs after as well. None of those mean there would have been a spike necessarily, but may contribute to an increase in adoption rate.
@Beaver Wonder how much of M$ trying to cram Recall on everyone drove that.
it’s definitely having an impact on my customers as they’re concerned about staying on Windows
the biggest blocker for them is Windows app parity on Linux
@recursive_recursion Having helped over 200 users migrate from windows to mac over the years, I find that it’s more fear than anything. Most folks are just using email, browser and some time of office suite.