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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Cricket@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:

After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.

Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it's growing fast.

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[–] Mio@feddit.nu 20 points 5 days ago (5 children)

But it is only in the US and not globally. Anyway, competition is good.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

9% in India. But this is down from a peak of ~15% late last year when the govt was worried about US sanctions and was pushing for Linux adoption.

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[–] SneakyWeasel@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Been working with linux for the last 2 years. Had to use windows for my laptop for work but now its a full linux mint machine

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hang on though, if it's web stats, how many of those impressions are ai bots scraping training data claiming to be Firefox users?

Don't those likely read as Linux from how they fingerprint on TCP connections?

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The last thing a scraper wants is to stand out. Most scrapers out there masquerade as Windows+Chrome on PC. It’s not hard to spoof a user agent and any scrapers that identify uniquely get blocked real fast.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I went to CachyOS on my desktop full time this year. Already had Bazzite on a laptop.

There's been a few hiccups here and there, but nothing insurmountable with a little patience and practice and reading.

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[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fuck man I saw a post in the past week that it was 5%. At this rate we'll be leaving M$ in the du$t.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago (6 children)

The 5% story was published yesterday. This new article from today says that they trust the government site figures more than StatCounter which was cited on yesterday's story.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

Honestly didn't believe the year of the linux desktop would be this year. I say it every year as a meme and it's actually here

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