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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Good. While the number's been generally trending upwards it's been unsteady and there have been plenty of months where it went down. If it went back below 4% this month we would have had endless posts about how the earlier milestone was a fluke.

Hopefully when the next backslide does happen (and it will) it'll stay above 4%.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Year of the linux on 3! 1! 2! 3!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Curious how it would be by country. Though I don't think statcounter could have data in Russia or China.

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