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

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.

Comments

Re:Looking at the trend

[93 Escort Wagon]

It seems clear that the losses in MacOS have appeared over in Linux.

July 2017
Mac: 6.02%
Linux: 2.53%

August 2017
Mac: 5.94%
Linux: 3.37%

Unless it takes 10 Linux desktops to replace each Mac, the math doesn't seem to work...

Re:YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

[MBGMorden]

Desktop isn't really over - it's just changed.

Personal users still use smartphones heavily. As a matter of fact I know quite a number of people who no longer own a computer and do all their personal tasks ONLY on a smartphone.

That said, business users are just as much into the desktop as ever, and that isn't likely to change any time soon. Smartphones make for decent media consumption devices, but they're not great and working with lots of plain old data.

Between the business sector and power users, the desktop will likely be around for just as long as mobile devices are - it just will be relegated to a niche product.