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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)
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[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, it is pretty hard to keep increasing your market share when you get closer and closer to 100%.

But yes, 2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows. Maybe Win7, but I never used it.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

2000 or XP was the last respectable version of Windows.

Generally it's a sine wave: XP SP3 good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good-ish, 11... nevermind.