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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS (www.webpronews.com)

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

Except that the Linux part of ChromeOS is still open-source and the growth of ChromeOS still would yield benefits to Linux users across the board.

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

like i guess but linux has such high enterprise usage already that idk what it brings to the table for the free software people. if they didn't have their own bespoke DE maybe that, but as far as i can tell the only thing chromeos brings that the enterprise guys don't is consumer hardware support

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