GNU/Linux Usage in Europe Leaps Above 6% in 2025

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025

IT is a bad start for Microsoft [1, 2] and we're rushing to check European data, which looks like this for GNU/Linux:

In the UK, Windows is down to an all-time low on laptops/desktops (60%). Add Android to the mix and Microsoft is down to about 20%:

This is a big deal because a lot of Microsoft's revenue came from Europe. █

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