Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
I don’t know if I know how to install windows at this point. The last time it was from a CD-R with the 25 character key written on it in Sharpie. Do they sell Windows installer USB sticks so the three people who are enthusiastic about Microsoft get a physical object? Then what, boot holding the key it says to hold to get into the bios, tell it to boot from USB and follow the prompts from there?
I think at this point you just activate it electronically. You can download the installation media straight from Microsoft.
I downloaded my latest windows iso from the archive. Then there is a tool called Rufus that copies the iso into a USB an adas the bits that recognize it as a bootable drives.
You can also get windows ISIS from your favorite torrenting site.