Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
Sure. That must be the reason.
Gotta shove AI into everything to prevent the bubble from collapsing.
Glad they mentioned distros to avoid for their AI integration.
certainly not like I specifically switched over to avoid having an AI automatically launch on start-up without my permission.