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The United States Of America is where the operating system started (Boston) and where Linus Torvalds works (Portland). It's also inspiring trends in many other nations, so this is important.

ChromeOS is not freedom but ChromeOS is also not Windows, so in other words it weakens Microsoft's grip on desktops/laptops, forcing Microsoft to lower licensing costs and thereby or thus destroying the revenue associated with Windows

Torvalds reminds people that yesterday's hype was "crypto" and before that "cloud-native". He explains that a lot of this stuff is "BS" around the "grain" (substance) and those who say "your job will be gone in 5 years" are just charlatans begging for money from investors, which is why they ride hype waves.

So it seems to have been canceled very fast

Yet another example (lots of that lately) of people from Microsoft "speaking for" "Open Source" and for "security"!

Remember you cannot please these online trolls who dwell on fantasies like dethroning founders of key projects that are large and popular

The sad thing is that a group of Microsoft employees inside the Linux Foundation (LF) more or less 'spams' the media, googlebombing 'linux' and bringing up 'Xz' again

Andres Freund works for Microsoft. It was not clear at first. He used his anarazel.de email instead of Microsoft email.

Two talks in Switzerland, where GNU's 40th birthday was celebrated last autumn by a then-hairless GNU founder, who underwent cancer treatment

To many people around the world "computer" means "smartphone" i.e. Android (Linux), not Windows

Microsoft is not our friend, it was trying to make billions of dollars per year by blackmailing OEMs, including Android OEMs, using software patents, sometimes settling on them preloading (i.e. bundling) Microsoft apps (spyware) in exchange for legal "peace"

More pseudo-lingo-mumbo-jumbo fake security and misleading acronyms from people who attack BSD and GNU/Linux users

In Asia Windows is down to an all-time low (21%) and setting aside everything except desktop/laptops, watch GNU/Linux at 6.2%

As of the end of this month (one day left), Windows is down even further, almost below 27%

Looking at clients that aren't as "beefy" as laptops, Linux is actually vastly bigger, owing to Android

This year it's time to revisit an old question

It's even higher if one counts ChromeOS, but Chromebooks are locked down and not exactly where we want to go

Windows is getting smaller every year if not every month. Android/Linux is what's growing.

It's mostly areas where mobile phone usage outpaces desktop/laptop usage

We are delighted to say that Europe consistently shows GNU/Linux growth, and it is not limited to something locked down such as ChromeOS (better than Windows, but not a path towards true digital freedom).