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Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.

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[–] ilmagico 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, misleading headline. They're talking about the linux desktop, and based just on browser stats. Marked share of linux as a whole, including all datacenters, servers, cloud infrastructure, and heck, throw in IOT devices, android, routers, etc, I'm pretty sure it's the dominant OS already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No doubt it's the most widely run OS, I think the significance is akin to the difference between ios and android. Android dominates smart phones as a whole but ios still generates far more revenue, giving them arguably more power. So while linux is more widely used, microsoft still dictates computing for the majority of people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just realized... Add in every tv sold this decade, the box bought got because the smart TV sucks, and the third one you got because it was cheap. Probably blue ray players too, if you have one.

That's gotta beat PC sales several times over on its own... We truly live in an absurd world

[–] TheGrandNagus 5 points 4 months ago

Linux has conquered the universe literally everywhere apart from the use-case it was originally made for - home PCs.

And tbh, I'd imagine it'd be dominant there too if it weren't for anti-competitive behaviour from Microsoft.