In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

a year ago by Sahwa to c/technology

Windows-like Linux distribution claims over a million downloads in the past month for its latest build.

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stebator 22 points a year ago

Someday Microsoft might realize that Windows should be rolling‑based, like CachyOS. By that time, it will be too late for them to catch up and bring everyone back to Windows.

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Rooster326 60 points a year ago

That's literally what Windows 10 was supposed to be. "The last version of windows". Does no one remember that?

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Soapbox 15 points a year ago

I by no means want to defend Microsoft. But I'm pretty sure that was said by an overzealous marketing person who didn't understand correctly, and this was corrected by Microsoft soon after.

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vacuumflower 11 points a year ago

I remember. I also remember Windows 8 which was supposed to make everything metro stylish and convenient, with tiling, ARM version, claims of being optimized and good for updating even on oldish boxes.

Same times as Nokia Lumia.

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