“Nobody wants Copilot”: Microsoft pauses Copilot on Windows 11’s taskbar to “incorporate your feedback," as Microslop backlash continues

[u/After_Cookies]

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/07/nobody-wants-copilot-microsoft-pauses-copilot-on-windows-11s-taskbar-to-incorporate-your-feedback/

[u/Lashay_Sombra]

They are not really scared of Linux on desktops, people have been saying it will take over for 30 years yet its never really got above 4% on desktops

If they start seeing high general usage (it not the IT students) in collages (how apple got its foot in the door) they might get concerned but until then they will not care

On servers though the numbers are nearly reversed

[u/CASpider → u/Lashay_Sombra]

They are not really scared of Linux on desktops, people have been saying it will take over for 30 years yet its never really got above 4% on desktops

English speaking Linux desktop use is already higher than that. Currently at 7-8% according to Valve.

Every quarterly earnings report someone is asking 'how do we get those people to give us money again?'.

[u/Lashay_Sombra → u/CASpider]

Dude , learn the value or lack of value of data

Not only are you limiting to one subset of data, English speakers, which less 5% speak natively, but then on top only steam users,  which is sidelining pretty much every non gamer and buisness PC

Or to put it in simple language what that data point  says

If you only count english speaking gamers and ignore everyone else, you get as high as 7-8% linux user base

(Though where getting 7-8% dont know, chart i see on that page has it down at around 5.5%, hell the Y axis caps out at 6%)

[u/CASpider → u/Lashay_Sombra]

Let's look at the data again.

1. Chart 3: the data is dominated by English and Chinese installs. Russian and Spanish also makes it into the chart, but in vastly lower numbers.

2. Chart 4: Of Linux users, 83% of them are using English installs of Steam

3. Chart 5: 3.5-4% of total installs are using Linux, but 7-8% of English installs use Linux

Putting this together: China has basically zero Linux penetration and isn't seeing the surge in Linux desktop use like the US and Europe are. In these areas, we see 7-8% desktop Linux use.

If you are a US or European company, you almost certainly care way more about US and European users than you do about Chinese users, making the 7-8% desktop Linux use the most relevant figure to look at.

[u/Lashay_Sombra → u/CASpider]

sigh

Once again, this is gamers only (and gamers using steam only at that)

Its the equivalent of seeing 96% of people in Vermont are white, so trying to extrapolate from that some type of national and and worldwide racial demographics conclusion ,it just does not work that way

Like lets take chart 5

This chart shows what happens if we only take English only on Steam as a language for Linux

Or another way of putting it, 'if we exclude non gamers, non steam users, and limit to english users only (so basically probably well in excess of 95% of desktops) we get 7-8% linux user base'

Thats called twisting and misrepresenting the data to fit a narrative. While there is no foolproof data collection there are far wider data sets, that are not limited to just gamers that use one particular store, that directly contradict you.

World Wide: 4.5%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

North America 3.5%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america

Europe: 4.6%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/europe

Asia: 5.7% (which is actually interesting, had not heard of decent growth there)

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/asia

Every time you linux fanboys pipe up you do this, last one encountered was trying to claim windows was dead on the desktop, to support his argument he was using total device installs, ie including Android mobile and IOT installs, in a debate about desktops

Just accept it , while Linux on desktop has grown over the decades, its still a tiny market share in comparison to Windows and IOS and its not currently a threat to either, despite decades of claims to the contrary by Linux fan boys