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Linux reached 10% of the desktop operating system market in Greece!

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[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people have pretty old desktop computers and can't upgrade. They start using linux instead of windows to get better performance

[–] Nuuskis@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hopefully they at least have ssd and 8gb ram.

[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

From my experience it is mostly windows vista/7 era hardware that gets the linux treatment usually.