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

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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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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I thought the 5% story was for USA users

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure about the 5% story, but this 6% one is specifically about US government sites. Sorry I didn't mention that in the post.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hahaha so many articles on different percentages

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I know! This article kind of addresses that with this line: "although we can't be certain of the exact numbers, Linux is clearly growing".

Interestingly enough, reading through again, the 6% figure is from US government sites, but the growth numbers in the line I quoted in the post is actually global. Here's the graph they're referring to:

I hadn't noticed that dip in 2025 until I looked at this graph more closely!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately the media failed to load

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You mean the attachment in my comment above? It's a webp file copied from the article, the table of year-by-year Linux desktop market share (global).

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