Oman in 2025: GNU/Linux Growing to 5%

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 07, 2025,
updated Apr 07, 2025

Last year: Oman in 2024: GNU/Linux Growing From 1.4% to 3.54%, Windows Falling From 83% to 66%

This month: [1, 2]

If the figures above resemble reality, only about 1 in 10 Web requests in (or from) Oman can be traced back to Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux grows rapidly, whereas Vista 11 goes down several months in a row. Are GNU/Linux PCs former Windows machines? If so, what can Microsoft do about it except sabotage the PCs? █

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