The blog Linuxiac reports:

Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter's latest figures for July 2026. The result places Linux firmly in double-digit territory for the first time in Statcounter's North American desktop operating system statistics.

For comparison, Statcounter recorded Linux at 5.52% in June 2026, so the share nearly doubled in one month... However, the sharp monthly increase needs context. Statcounter's June figures included an "Unknown" category that accounted for 9.24% of North American desktop usage. Its reduction seems to have coincided with Linux's rise, possibly indicating better identification of previously unclassified traffic...

Statcounter is not the only major web measurement platform showing Linux with a substantial presence on North American desktops. Cloudflare Radar data, filtered to desktop HTTP traffic from North America over the previous 28 days, also places Linux at a notably high level [9.4%].
StatCounter's data also shows Linux with an even larger market share of 11.87% in just the United States — and a 14.73% market share in India. Linux's market share in other world regions:

Asia 7.17%
Africa 5.71%
Europe 5.49%
South America 4.35%
China 2.12%


And here's how the Linux market share on other countries compare to India and the U.S.


India 14.73%
United States 11.87%
Germany 7.24%
UK 6.18%
Canada 3.83%
Australia 3.55%


Linux's surge could be due to its use in automation or headless browser workloads, Linuxiac points out. But another possibility is "growing frustration with Windows hardware requirements, advertising, account integration, telemetry, and forced interface changes has pushed some users to explore alternatives..."

"For now, the safest conclusion is that Linux has surpassed 10% of measured desktop web usage in North America according to Statcounter, not necessarily 10% of the region's installed desktop computer base."

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The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts:


A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72% suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs. A full 46% admit to the practice of coffee-badging. Thirty-six percent have applied for a new job while sitting at their current office desk. Thirty-six percent have started a side hustle since the mandate was announced, in anticipation of being let go or quitting. Those numbers do not prove that employees reject collaboration. They show that many employees no longer trust the official story...



The central mistake in many in-office mandates is the assumption that proximity automatically produces commitment. It does not. A worker who spends two hours commuting to sit on video calls with colleagues in other cities is not experiencing culture. That worker is experiencing theater. When executives describe the office as a cure-all, many employees experience lost time, higher costs and lower autonomy. The policy's defining feature becomes its credibility gap. Research keeps undercutting the belief that more office time automatically means better performance. A University of Pittsburgh analysis of S&P 500 firms found that return-to-office mandates reduced employee satisfaction without improving firm performance or firm value....

Baylor University's reporting on office mandates and brain drain found that firms with mandates faced greater turnover among women, senior employees, managers and high-skilled workers, while job vacancy duration increased and hiring rates declined. In other words, the people with the most options are often the first to leave. The employees who remain may not be the most committed — they may simply be the least mobile... Attendance can be mandated, but commitment cannot. When leaders confuse the two, they do not rebuild workplace culture. They create a room full of people planning their exit.

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Wat een lelijk vandalisme in Alphen aan den Rijn. Samenleven is een van de kernwaarden van Nederland. Daar hoort ook samenleven met de kabouters bij, al snappen wij dat dat door het gedrag van sommige kabouters niet altijd even makkelijk is en, dit willen we toch even gezegd hebben, voor dat incident destijds met de Grote Boze Heks bestaat gewoon geen excuus. Verschillende meningen over kabouters mogen bestaan, daarover gaan we met elkaar in gesprek. Maar voor het slopen van meer dan zestig kabouters, en bovendien enkele met zorg gebouwde kabouterhuisjes, is geen enkele rechtvaardiging. Rob Jetten zeg er wat van.

We fietsten door de Achterhoek, een onderschat gebied. De fietspaden waren niet allemaal verhard, het aantal mede-toeristen viel mee.

Een paar dagen na de instroom van bijna zestigduizend migranten lijkt de rust teruggekeerd in de Spaanse exclave Ceuta. Het Spaanse leger en de politie doen er alles aan om de migranten die nog over zijn ook richting de grens te bewegen. „Als we niet meewerken, zullen ze ons met geweld verdrijven en honden inzetten.”

Greek police say 26-year-old foreigner is believed to have left Elisabeth-Jane Ross’s body in derelict building

A man has been arrested after the death of a Scottish woman whose body was found inside a suitcase in Athens.

The 26-year-old man, who Greek police said was a foreigner, was arrested after the death of Elisabeth-Jane Ross. The 38-year-old’s body was discovered inside a suitcase by a homeless man in a derelict building in the Kypseli area of Athens on 18 July.

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