Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase

People can&#x27;t go to work and log in, ergo, a noticeable drop in Windows 10 usage, because Windows is used by <i>a lot of people at work.</i><p>But, since we are looking at <i>relative</i> market shares, that means every other OS&#x27; share goes up, even if the actual number of users remains almost the same. (And the article points this out at the end.)<p>This will be followed by each of those OSs seeing massive drops in relative market share once people go back to work and all the dormant Windows 10 computers start running again.

Ubuntu is becoming more and more suitable for normal users. Most of the work is done in web browsers these days. I do ubuntu minimal installation and almost everything works out of box. More people would be using if laptop makers start giving ubuntu as default option.

&gt; Ubuntu’s overall share of operating system usage ballooned from 0.27% in March to 1.89% in April.<p>This is when a new version of Ubuntu was released. Since it&#x27;s measured by web visits, this could be a bunch of people installing 20.04 in a VM and checking it out

&gt;One key thing to note: Ubuntu isn’t seeing a 599 percent increase in additional users. That jump represents its increase in overall operating system market share from month to month. But it’s still an astonishing number<p>So... a whole bunch of servers using Ubuntu got fired up?

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows Windows users to install a Linux distro (several downloadable from the Windows Store) and WSL 2 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;wsl&#x2F;wsl2-index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;wsl&#x2F;wsl2-index</a>) recently arrived. There&#x27;s mad bit of satisfaction in being able to do this and it&#x27;s useful. I was able to work on a Python&#x2F;Linux stack project and other developers on the team were using WSL too. You can even open a WSL terminal in VS Code.

I would love to use Ubuntu as my main device but unfortunately there are always some stupid driver issues. I tested Ubuntu 20 last week and couldn&#x27;t get second screen working through HDMI. For the sake of it :(

I&#x27;m a recent Fedora-&gt;Ubuntu convert. I recently found a multi monitor hack for the Gnome dock that has had a hugely positive impact on my productivity. It allows you to localize an app to it&#x27;s respective dock &#x2F; monitor with this one weird trick: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ericbets&#x2F;essential" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ericbets&#x2F;essential</a>

Is 2020 the year of the Linux desktop?

Windows allows the Linux layer and Ubuntu is the most popular option. Because the Windows market share goes down slightly doesn’t mean the new ubuntu users are exclusively separate users. There’s just an addition funnel of access now, creating more ubiquity amongst platforms. Yay!

Canonical is prime acquisition material.

Windows will become an emulation layer in Linux. Why? Microsoft makes most money from cloud subscriptions.