• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    Yep, SMB’s are holding on longer. And a few enterprises where there’s tens of thousands of machines, could be enough to impact those sales figures.

    I have friends in the SMB IT space and ALL their clients are delaying desktop/laptop upgrades.

    • ol_capt_joe@piefed.social
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      21 hours ago

      I see the same in large enterprises. People are still using 5-6 year old machines (still fit for purpose).

      I think the mass migration to linuxtopia accounts for maybe 2-3 of that 27%, but the bulk of it is just declining PC sales.

      Higher AI adoption, slower job market, fewer new hires, less need for new leases, smaller orders from vendors. The boom of the 2010s is over, and AI isn’t going to fill that gap (literally just said it’s the cause of it).