No, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died, because the entire spike appears to be driven by AI bots. Almost every month, we […]
Ironically, I’m not sure it matters.
people running bots are still a large section of an OS’s market share. Microsoft wouldn’t hesitate to include bots and such like because it inflates the appearance that “everyone just uses it”. which does in fact drive up usage.
People running bots are still people using computers and such.
if I would to run bots I would only ever use windows or mac osx user agents. I would never use linux