No, 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 […]
My family had 3 windows machines a few years ago. Now we have 3 Linux machines.
I know we’re not representative of the public at large, but my siblings are interested in transitioning… My friends are having more and more gripes with windows lately… Seems like a revolution is on the horizon. Never seen this sort of willingness, so who knows
Just to echo you. Same, we went to Linux transitioned one computer almost two years ago, then all four in our house slowly. We’ve been windows free for over a year now.
Honestly I don’t think Windows could ever get my family back.
The only Windoes PC in my house is my work PC, and I barely touch it at home.
I gave away my old pc to my grandpa and installed a Linux Mint on it. This will prob be better 100% than win 11. He only uses pc for simple things like browsing internet and office work. Installed ONLYOFFICE which is 1:1 Microso.
Trying to convince my dad rn.
Good on you all!!!
Hope you and your family can help others make the switch too.
Nobody deserves to stay over on the horrible side
Edit: Oh and many of us have been getting people to switch or dual boot, and getting others to help out the effort. So definitely seeing the first fruits of that.
Can’t wait for us to get 15% then 30% seeing Linux hardware, and devices gradually become everywhere
And did you help setup any of those machines?
Now imagine a family that doesn’t have a tech guy like you. You think they would ever be able to install any OS, let alone Linux?
That’s the thing: Many families have a tech guy. The son who knows computers. The neighbor. The dude from work. And yes, if you are able to read, you can install a Linux. It’s not that complicated and there are a lot of really good instructions online.