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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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You're comparing apples and oranges...
Firefox (all platforms): 2.74%
Linux (all platforms): 1.61%
Firefox (desktop): 6.64%
Linux (desktop): 4.45%
You've chosen to compare Firefox's share from all platforms to Linux's share only on desktop. I don't know whether this was deliberate misinformation-pushing, or an innocent brainfart/inability to parse data, but that's not how data is compared.
Firefox has 50-70% more users than Linux, depending on the platform you use for comparison.
No matter how you cut it, Firefox is more popular. It's more popular across all platforms as a whole, and it's also more popular on desktop.
And 4.45% of a far smaller number is not greater than 2.74% of a much much larger number.