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Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by genmud »

Probably 70 or 80% of cloud workloads are Linux, and like 60% of embedded devices, of which there are billions.

And of those embedded/mobile devices, the rest will either be running iOS, vxworks, freertos or zephyr.

I think the joke has always been "this is the year of Linux", but in all honesty... it's the decade of Linux. It's probably one of the few areas where there is growth in computing capacity and by far most of the net new is running Linux.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by andsoitis »

genmud wrote: post #2

Probably 70 or 80% of cloud workloads are Linux, and like 60% of embedded devices, of which there are billions. And of those embedded/mobile devices, the rest will either be running iOS, vxworks, freertos or zephyr. I think the joke has always been "this is the year of Linux", but in all honesty... it's the decade of Linux. It's probably one of the few areas where there is growth in computing capacity and by far most…

Consumers don't know any of that. The article is about desktop penetration.

There was a chance with mobile phones to use and signal Linux, but that didn't happen either.

Still, congratulations on hitting 3% desktop share.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by MBCook »

> While someone may seem the figure modest, it signifies a growing acceptance and recognition of the power and versatility of Linux.

Does it? It’s 3%. If it was 15% or 20% maybe you could say that.

It’s less than “unknown” and less than ChromeOS which is just over 4%. If it wasn’t a round number, I don’t think anyone would ever write this article because the number is just too small.

It’s nice that it seems to be growing. I just don’t think this is a big achievement.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by Panino »

Somewhat recently, OpenBSD binaries for Chromium and Iridium were changed to identify as Linux instead of OpenBSD in the useragent, I think to pass dumb "security" webapps that refuse to talk to unknown clients. Firefox still identifies as OpenBSD.

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Post by electricduck »

I'm kinda surprised this entirely forgot to mention the SteamDeck. I'd love to know how much of an impact that had, considering apparently 3 million units have been sold (according to Valve). Alas, how many of those users know they are running Linux is another question.
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