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Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My cynical nature says its just steam decks and people not using/unable to afford PCs anymore.

My anecdotal experience says ive swapped 6 of my own family members to linux and know of at least 3 people doing the same, so it might be real

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

theres millions of PCs out there that cant run Windows 11 for stupid reasons, no reason to not believe some of them are getting linux'd to keep being used.