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Linux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August (gs.statcounter.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's for August. And the growth is exponential, not linear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To a point. Let's be honest it's going to be more like an S-curve since you can't go past 100% market share, and some people will refuse to switch.

And people not wanting to switch is fine imo. Having competition will likely help all OS's get better over time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i mean i'd prefer the competition to be BSD and such, not windows and macos