Windows and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/linux” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/linux”>Linux have a long-standing rivalry as operating systems. And while the former holds a competitive advantage over the latter due to its massive market share and broad app compatibility, Linux is starting to gain some traction, especially after data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/windows-10-eol-esu-faq” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/windows-10-eol-esu-faq”>Microsoft ended Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025.

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Windows and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/linux” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/linux”>Linux have a long-standing rivalry as operating systems. And while the former holds a competitive advantage over the latter due to its massive market share and broad app compatibility, Linux is starting to gain some traction, especially after data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/windows-10-eol-esu-faq” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/windows-10-eol-esu-faq”>Microsoft ended Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025.

For instance, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/windows-10-retirement-pushes-780-000-users-to-linux-as-zorin-os-hits-1m-downloads” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/windows-10-retirement-pushes-780-000-users-to-linux-as-zorin-os-hits-1m-downloads”>Zorin OS, a Linux distro, gained approximately 780,000 users from Windows, a little over a month after Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10. While this might be coincidental, the…