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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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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is what they have always done. Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Jesus, way to advertise your age, dude. This hasn't been the case for over 20 years. MS was the largest contributor to the Linux repos in around 2010 resulting in WSL. Nothing got extinguished, but we got a bunch of nice compatibility layers from it, not to mention people trying it out and then switching full-time to Linux.

[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

MS was the largest contributor to the Linux repos in around 2010 resulting in WSL.

embrace

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Buddy, it's been 15 years...