Google Trends: "how to install Linux" is going viral

Posted by doener on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:41AM
from the old.reddit.com dept.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1rpqx08/google_trends_how_to_install_linux_is_going_viral/

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Re:Google Trends: "how to install Linux" is going viral by robtherobber on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:47AM (#47321518)

The trend reversed, according to a comment in that thread.

More info can be found here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=how%20to%20instal...

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Re:Google Trends: "how to install Linux" is going viral by david_iqlabs on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @08:37AM (#47322429)

Feels like Linux interest comes in waves. Every time Windows does something annoying you suddenly see a spike in people asking how to switch.

Most probably go back after a few weeks but the number that stay keeps slowly growing.

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Re:Google Trends: "how to install Linux" is going viral by tim-tday on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:10PM (#47328200)

People getting nagged to upgrade win 10 to win 11. Then learning that win 11 doesn’t work on the machine. Then realizing that as easy as Linux is these days it’s still hard.

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