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Linux for desktop market share surpasses 4% for the first time, says Statcounter (www.neowin.net)
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Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the very first time (Statcounter records ChromeOS as a separate operating system despite being based on Linux). Statcounter doesn’t provide any explanation about why the market share has increased but we can speculate what’s going on.

Linux’s march to its 4.03% market share has been a steady process ever since the final months of 2020 when Linux held just 1.53% of desktop market share. One of the biggest contributors to the growth of Linux is likely the stringent hardware requirements of Windows 11.

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago

The huge push from communities to get back to normal communication and marginalising toxicity is something that doesn't get often mentioned, but the culture has definitely improved over the years to where the usual "elitist gatekeeper" accusation from other OS's bad actors falls flat and more people are not put off before even downloading an iso.

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