Mobile is the key here. Linux and Mac aren't responsible for these numbers.

Ask the SEO guy at any company what's the current divide between mobile and desktop visits to their site.

There's something so pleasing about buying a Windows 11 laptop, and immediately replacing Windows with LMDE.

No need for dual boot, just wholesale replacement.

The only downside is not having my OS spying on me and forcing me to use AI.

I'm a single user, but switched over four PCs in my home to Linux 🤗

The funniest part is they've turned it into such a spyware bot they can see the user numbers declining in real time!

Elsewhere in the same report, Mehdi writes that Windows 11 is 2.3x faster than Windows 10. He failed to mention that Microsoft came to this conclusion by testing the older OS on laptops with Intel Core 6th-, 8th- and 10th-generation processors, while Windows 11 tests were carried out on PCs with Intel Core 12th- and 13th-generation CPUs.

So, bullshit metric. Noted.

We need more cities to switch away from Microsoft.

Just one more ai filled Spyware bro. Trust me.

Linux baby!

They really fucked up. I can't afford to replace my HARDWARE to suit Windows.

I've only got one Windows 10 PC still running and I basically never use it anymore. It's really just my safety blanket in case I happen to someday run into a game where I really, absolutely, cannot possibly play it on Linux. I haven't found one yet. RIP Windows. You won't be missed.

In a post focused on Windows 10's upcoming end-of-support date (October 14), Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi boasts that Windows is the most widely used operating system in the world today, with over one billion monthly active devices globally.

However, it's been noted that in its 2022 annual report, Microsoft said 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or Windows 11, up from 1.3 billion devices a year earlier.

I think it's significantly more likely that the number is still around 1.4 billion

Linux devices can’t be counted because privacy is something for linux users. But is way more extended than windows: smart tvs, smart speakers, smart sensors, smart potatoes, car infotainment, datacenters, handheld devices… Any person owns way more linux devices than windows and mac combined. Windows is just a toy for gamers and outdated office workers. MS knows that.

Good.

Switched to Mac over a decade ago - never will I go back.

Because of w10 ending, and my unwillingness to keep dealing with their horrid bullshit, I'm switching every machine in my offices to Linux mint. I'm not thrilled to have to learn a new os, but so far everything I need works, and it's not that big of a jump outside of the file system structure being a bit less straight forward.

Interesting... I lost my interest in Windows about two decades ago... way too much glitches.