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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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[–] 28 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

I just installed Mint the other day. I was pussy footing around with trying to create a persistent USB drive but the bootloader was fighting me. I finally just hovered over the "wipe drive and install" button for a while before I finally clicked and let it rip. Never again M$.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    dual booting would be a pain in the ass, both setting it up and post-setup

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

    Dual booting is dumb easy with most Linux installers. I've been dual booting two different Linux partitions for years.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Do you use different harddrives for your partitions? Because that might be the reason you dont have that much problems. From what I heard windows likes to wipe all boot entries that aren't windows and are located on the same drive.

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