Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in Africa GNU/Linux Surges in Usage

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 04, 2024

Yesterday we saw it estimated at 3.8% and now it's up to 3.9%:

Desktop Operating System Market Share Africa

Two years ago it was around 0.5%.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Daniel Pocock's ClueCon 2024 Presentation Was Also Streamed Live in YouTube and Later Removed by Google, Citing "Copyrights". Now It's Back.: The talk covers social control media, Debian, politics, and more
Improving Daily Links by Culling Spam, Chaff, and LLM Slop: the Web is getting worse
[Meme] EPO Targets: Targets mean nothing if or when you measure the wrong thing
[Video] Daniel Pocock's Public Talk About Free Software Politics, Social Engineering, Debian Deaths and Suicides, Coercion and Exploitation of Women: took many months to get
BetaNews Cannot Survive If Its Fake Articles Are Just SPAM for Companies Like AOHi and Aren't Even Composed by Humans: This is what domains or former "news" sites do when they die and look very desperately for "another way"
Pocock shot in the face, shot in the back, shot on Hitler's birthday saving France, Belgium and FOSDEM: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Dr Richard Stallman in Montpellier, Robert Edward Ernest Pocock in France: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 20, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, January 20, 2025
Links 20/01/2025: Conflict, Climate, and More: Links for the day
Gemini Links 20/01/2025: Conflicted Feelings and Politics: Links for the day
Google 'Cancels' RMS: Is the talk happening?
Microsoft Revisionism Debunked by Microsoft's Own Words About “the Failure of OS/2”: The Register on “the failure of OS/2”
Links 20/01/2025: Indonesia to Prevents Kids' Access to Social Control Media (Addiction and Worse), Climate News Catchuo: Links for the day
EPO Union Says Monopoly-Granting Targets at EPO "Difficult to Achieve Without Compromising [Staff] Health, Personal Time or the Quality of the Final Products" (Products as in Monopolies, Not Real Products): To those of us (over 99.999% of people impacted by this) who do not work at the EPO the misuse of words like "products" (monopolies are not products) should be disturbing
The EPO is Nowadays Trying to Trick Staff Into Settling Instead of Solving the Underlying Problems of Corruption and Injustice: This seems like a classic case of "divide-and-rule" or using misled/weak people to harm the whole group (or "the village")
Links 20/01/2025: More PR Stunts by ByteDance and MLK’s Legacy Disrespected: Links for the day
Gemini Links 20/01/2025: Magnetic Fields, NixOS, and Pleroma: Links for the day
BetaNews Spreads Donald Trump Propaganda, Promotes Scams, and Publishes Fake 'Articles' About "Linux": This is typical BetaNews
Richard Stallman 'Unveils' His January 20 Talk in Montpellier, France: It's free (gratis)
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 19, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, January 19, 2025
Links 19/01/2025: Gaza Ceasefire and PR Stunt by Fentanylware (TikTok), Faking It by "Going Dark" to Incite American Addicts (Users): Links for the day
[Meme] Hardware RAID and Hardware Raid: We're expecting attacks on the press in Trump's second term (no need to impress anyone for another election cycle) to be far worse than the first
What's Running on the Laptops: 12 months have passed
They Won't Buy Vista 11 PCs or "Hey Hi" Copilot+++++++ PCs of Microsoft (With TPM): Windows at 8%
No Time Left for President Biden to Pardon Julian Assange: At least they tried
[Meme] 404, Not Found: Kuhn: I'd like to interject for a moment, we made an alliance with the Microsoft-dominated LF to outsource projects to Microsoft GitHub and rich people gave us money to do this
Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part IV - The Latest Examples and the Perils (in Summary): For further reading take a look at Musial's nice outline
FOSDEM is Called "FOSDEM" Because of Richard Stallman (RMS): The overlap there seems timely; yesterday RMS spoke in French-speaking (in part) Switzerland where questions in French were accepted
Links 19/01/2025: TikTok (Fentanylware) Now Banned in the US, Convicted Felon Talks to Fentanylware CEO and Pooh-Tin About Undoing the Ban Despite the Supreme Court Unanimously Upholding It: Links for the day
FTC Realises Microsoft Buying Fake 'Clients' to Fake "Revenue" (Microsoft 'Buying' Services and Products From Itself!): Ponzi scheme
Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part III - The Web Browser as DRM Pusher: A lot of "streaming" stuff is DRM
Video: University in Peru Honours Richard Stallman: Tomorrow, January 20, Richard Stallman speaks in France
IBM Termination Story and Information From Microsoft About Mass Layoffs: In 2 weeks of 2025 Microsoft already had 2 waves of layoffs
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 18, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, January 18, 2025