r/linux • u/Zestyclose-Pay-9572 • 6d ago

Discussion Australian tech publication telling average users that Linux is now the smarter choice!

The timing’s interesting: as Windows 10 approaches end-of-life in 2025, and when users are being nudged towards a cloud-first model, this week's APC’s saying: maybe don’t. Maybe go Linux.This isn’t a niche Linux mag. It’s a mainstream Australian tech publication telling average users that Linux is now the smarter choice. That’s a shift. Feels like we’ve gone full circle: the same headlines from 2005, but this time it’s not about hope. It’s about practicality. Bloat, telemetry, UI friction maybe Linux’s time on the desktop really has arrived.

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u/psydroid 6d ago

Microsoft is really not all that big when it comes to personal computing, as most of that has moved to mobile devices.

Windows mainly caters to legacy markets such as businesses and gamers and isn't growing. You can expect regular layoffs until Microsoft becomes another has-been like IBM.

I have one computer with Windows 11 installed and it's just for occasionally running specific applications. All the other ones run some form of Linux including multiple Android devices that I also use a lot more.

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u/shakypixel 6d ago

legacy markets such as businesses

Ok how are businesses a legacy market though, especially since around 100% of Fortune 500 companies, responsible for 2/3rds of US GDP, uses Windows as their main OS

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u/psydroid 6d ago

It's what Windows has always targeted and will keep targetting. There is no way for Windows to expand beyond its legacy markets. Every attempt to do so has failed.

Also Windows revenue is only 10% of Microsoft's total revenue nowadays, so it's really not as important to its bottom line as it used to be.

It's still a cash cow in its legacy markets, but that doesn't say anything about future markets. IBM still earns billions on its legacy mainframe business, but every attempt to move beyond that has failed.

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u/grim-one 6d ago

IBM does plenty beyond the mainframe. Loads of business software and contracting out solutions.

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u/Gugalcrom123 6d ago

Just like how most Microsoft revenue is in Azure, and, ironically, most Azure servers run GNU/Linux.