Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share (w3counter.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday July 2, 2016 @08:34AM from the world-domination dept.

LichtSpektren writes: W3Counter's stats for June 2016 are in, and Linux desktop accounts for 2.48% of all web visits from tracked websites... (Android is counted separately from "Linux desktop.")
Meanwhile, NetMarketShare shows Linux with a 2.02% share of the desktop market. And StatCounter shows a more detailed breakdown of the top 7 operating systems, with Windows 7 at 42.02%, Windows 10 at 21.88%, OSX at 9.94%, Windows 8.1 at 8.66%, Windows XP at 6.5%, and another 4.06% for "Unknown" (which is roughly tied with "Other") -- beating Windows 8.0 at 3.52%. In May they also reported another thought-provoking statistic: that Firefox's browser usage had surpassed that of IE and Edge combined for the first time.

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Go Donald! by ColdWetDog · 2016-07-02 08:36 · Score: 5, Funny

So now I'm all confused. Is this due to Trump's influence, Brexit or Global Warming?

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Windows 10 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-07-02 08:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Will make this the year of Linux on the Desktop.
1. Re:Windows 10 by hey! · 2016-07-02 10:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Don't feel bad. I used Debian 0.9 when that was a thing. I dowloaded it over a 2400 baud modem onto a stack of floppies, haha!
  No, seriously, I actually did that. I also got X to work on a Hercules Graphics Card, and if you even know what that is, you're old.
  
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