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Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years (linuxiac.com)
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StatCounter’s June 2026 report shows Linux at one of its strongest recent positions, while Windows falls to 56.55%.

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[–] cytro@mastodon.de 1 points 1 month ago

@Fizz
If I remember correctly is even Microsoft itself migrating to Linux. Most and common parts of azure and the hyper scaler are based on Linux. Microsoft pushes WSL to its operating systems. I think the underlaying core system for future MS OS (bootable out of the cloud) will be based on Linux.