“Make 2026 the year of Linux on your desktop. The driver story is fine, the gaming story is fine, and Windows is no longer fine.”
PC Gamer is not the publication that wrote the year-of-Linux-on-the-desktop joke for two decades, and that is the news. The audience the magazine covers is the audience Microsoft cannot afford to lose. They are losing it. Not in catastrophic numbers. Just steady, consistent, irreversible numbers. Every six months, a few more people make the switch and do not come back.