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minimar@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

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Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

www.theregister.com

minimar@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't
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    If Linux only makes up half the Linux market, what the heck makes up the other half? 🤔

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      We’ve had one Linux, yes… what about Second Linux?

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      Linux 2

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      ChromeOS, which has another 4%. Which is also Linux but the “wrong” kind. It was the author’s tongue-in-cheek way of highlighting the fact that ChromeOS is so different for the regular Linux user that not being counted as Linux actually makes sense.

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        I read the title and assumed it was a typo, made the joke, then clicked into the article to see that no, that really was what the title was saying. lol

        Deleted the comment immediately but apparently it is still there for others?

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          Still there hours later for me.

          Maybe edit first next time in, just in case?

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            At this point I might as well just restore it. People are having a laugh, and that’s my main goal anyway lol

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      They probably meant that GNU holds half of the Linux desktop usage, and Chrome OS the other

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