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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA (ostechnix.com)
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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm obviously limited to my own bubble, but my friends / aquintances consist mostly of "tech aware" people and they have been getting cozy with Fedora and Linux Mint due to the BuyFromEU/BuyFromEurope movement.

I know from a few schools that they use ChromeBooks since corona pandemic (they were handing them to kids so everyone could equally attend remotely) and they just kept using them since they had them when they returned to classrooms. I don't know how widespread this is and don't know if chromebooks count towards linux desktop stats?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There seems to be some debate on whether we are counting Chromebooks as Linux.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    the debate basically comes down to "technically linux" (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and "spiritually linux" (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it). i think if we're talking the latter chromeos belongs less than windows does. however for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask

    I would put ChromeOS in it's own category just because it is so different than the other Linux variants, just as MacOS is so different than the rest.

    Windows, Linux, MacOS, ChromeOS

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    the debate basically comes down to “technically linux” (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and “spiritually linux” (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it).

    This is why Stallman tried to insist on "GNU/". As usual, he was right.

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