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Don't try to teach Microsoft to "love" GNU/Linux. It'll never happen. At best it'll act "coy" while attacking you from the inside, usually behind your back.

This "gish gallop" of FUD is already tiring. Responding to it each time is a time-consuming exercise, but let's have a go at it. Someone should.

GNU/Linux (excluding ChromeOS) is measured at 6.19% of desktops/laptops in Turkey, 6.29% of desktops/laptops in Luxembourg, 8.04% of desktops/laptops in Lebanon, 8.44% of desktops/laptops in Ukraine, 8.57% of desktops/laptops in Azerbaijan, 9.43% of desktops/laptops in Greece, 14.84% of desktops/laptops in India, and 17.53% of desktops/laptops in Norway.

statCounter numbers for 2024 have just come out (this afternoon). Let's take a quick look at the snapshot.

What has happened at MakeUseOf (MOU)? They never responded to our polite and constructive query.

Aside from maturity of some distros we saw actual growth, worldwide, for GNU/Linux. The growth was considerable on laptops/desktops, based on several surveys that we saw. Some measure GNU/Linux at around 4% across all form factors.

Have a play with the full dataset

The pertinent details about the latest Linux issue are not fully disclosed just yet, but it has been assigned a rare level of severity

What's wrong with all this? Look at the big(ger) picture. Look at the long-term agenda, not just the stepping stones.

HE sad news is, MakeUseOf is no longer covering GNU/Linux. Why? We don't know. But this change was abrupt, not gradual.

Donate today to fund Sandler's $250,000 per annum salary and $500/hour motions to gag Professor Eben Moglen (with help from real lawyers, who later do blog posts that further demonise Professor Moglen).

As it turns out, more people in that small country are turning to GNU/Linux; consider the trends alone; at the start of the year Windows was measured at just 15% there and GNU/Linux was measured at 5% this past summer on desktops and laptops. If one counts ChromeOS as GNU/Linux, then it's even higher.

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 13, 2023

These attacks are repeated, systematic and defamatory, not a case of "moment of passion" or "in the heat of the moment"

Facts aren't a factor here; these are just plain old hatchet jobs (e.g. a "Hit Piece" in press release form, without attribution to the respective author/s).

Microsoft is not a friend of "Open Source". GitHub is a proprietary prison which besieges Open Source (or "Inner Source") projects and Microsoft continues to lobby against the adoption of Free software, including what it wrongly labels because Microsoft is a Trojan horse.

Those who say that "ChromeOS is [GNU/]Linux with Google’s desktop environment" could also say that SteamOS is "Linux with Valve's DRM system" (and KDE on an Arch Linux "base").

This isn’t even the first time, or the second, or third, that confirmed malware has been found in the Snap store

THE Ubuntu community died a very long time ago, almost a decade and a half ago.

THE GNU/Linux operating system was created in the 1980s by communities, for communities (even literal basement dwellers). The operating system became so robust and attractive that a trade group of corporate actors (mostly proprietary) formed malevolent fronts through which to promote toxic waste like Hyper-V and exFAT.

It’s completely laughable for companies calling others freeloaders, when in fact, we are the contributors, developers, laborers of love and take ownership volunteering our time to projects these companies use.