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Wowzer, ok, that's seriously impressive though, like in 2022 I feel we were stuck at 2-2.5% and in 2023 we passed 3% for the first time and now we're at almost 4????? That's like DOUBLING the market share in a year
I was thinking the same thing. We've actually surpassed Apple on desktop. I know we're gonna laughingly say "year of the Linux desktop," but we have to honestly look how far we've come in a relatively short time.
mac has over 16% though, we still aren't even close
You're actually 100% right. I don't know what figure I was thinking of, but you're just right.
You might have been thinking Steam gaming. Mac was at ~5% and has dropped to ~2%
That is likely it. Okay, thank you.
It only took 40 years :')