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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux holds more than 8% market share in India, and it's on the upward trend (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 10 months ago (2 children)

August 2022

Old data, man.

It's even better now.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Those wild spikes don't give me a lot of confidence in the data

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That explains the popularity of "unknown OS" but not why it swings so wildly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uhm what's re they using for this report... I would have assumed they would have gone with just taking the User Agent and similar which I guess that wouldn't matter on the modifications you say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah sure but you usually fake a real existing one so it would go into one of the categories not the Unknown.

[–] ShitOnABrick 1 points 10 months ago

This makes alot of sense I'll imagine the folk using Linux aren't using it out of choice but out of necessity due to linux being kinder to older hardware

[–] kalleboo 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The biggest spikes look like the correspond to new year. So my guess is that the spikes are vacations and show the difference between home PC and office PC usage.

You can see the same spikes on e.g. Googles IPv6 chart - when people are away from work IPv6 penetration goes up, when people are at work it goes down.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 2 points 10 months ago

Damn, that's a lot, and within a year too!

Also, at least half of that 'unknown' is probably Linux too.