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Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% (netmarketshare.com)

Posted by msmash on from the milestone dept.

Data for the month of August 2017 from reliable market analytics firm Net Applications is here, and it suggests that Linux has finally surpassed the three percent mark, quite possibly for the first time in recent years. According to Net Applications, the desktop market share of Linux jumped from 2.53 percent in July to 3.37 percent in August. There's no explanation for what accounted for this growth.

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  1. YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Funny

    has arrived!

    1. Re:YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's what I felt too. Logically it is like this, Linux users are techie types and in order to make their systems more secure from attacks, it would spoof its system to report as a Windows OS and hence it skewed the results from market analytics.

  2. It was me by rtkluttz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I reinstalled 3715 times trying to get a thermal issue solved with the 4.10 kernel.

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  3. I would like to apologize. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was getting my fortune read by a old gypsy woman and she said, "2017 can be the year of the Linux desktop... but there's a price." I accepted but honestly, I didn't think she could actually make people vote for Trump! ;)

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