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.

lvxferre@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

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Anticorp@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

I had extra time during the pandemic and used some of it to permanently migrate to Linux.

taaz@biglemmowski.win · 6 pts · 1y

Maybe that LTT linux challenge?

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 1y

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

BlackLaZoR@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y

Windows 10 and 11 happened

Edit: Also around 2017 DXVK happened bringing high end gaming to Linux

plz1@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

.1% gain is smashing records now?

cheddar@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y

So that's why this figure is not in the title. Sharing such posts is disrespectful towards the community.

WhosDonlee@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y

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.

CloudyBlake@infosec.exchange · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

@Beaver Wonder how much of M$ trying to cram Recall on everyone drove that.

recursive_recursion@programming.dev · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

CloudyBlake@infosec.exchange · 9 pts · 1y

@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.

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

Anti Commercial-AI license

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y

Windows 10 is going EOL in Oct of 2025