Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
www.theregister.com
It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't

Not mine but sounds like a showerthought to me. TL;DR ChromeOS is the “wrong” version of Linux and has 4% while GNU/Linux has 3%

  • lightsecond@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Interesting read. I was genuinely surprised to read that ChromeOS has 4%+ desktop market share. It’s not popular at all where I am from. I’ve never ever seen one in person.

    • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I used to sell laptops. Most of my customers were elderly people who only needed to watch Netflix, do their banking, check emails, etc. Chromebooks flew off the shelves.

      It was the College-bound kids who insisted on a proper laptop.

  • const_void@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Never understood why “market share” matters to so many Linux enthusiasts. It’s not like Linux is a product that needs to generate revenue.

    • nBodyProblem@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because the biggest practical downside of Linux is a lack of natively developed big name software. It’s annoying to find some great software that perfectly meets your needs and then discover than it can’t run with decent performance on Linux.

      Market share growing means that Linux becomes a better and more accessible option.

      • const_void@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        So what’s the magical percentage of market share that gets Adobe to port their proprietary software over to Linux?

        • Doods@infosec.pub
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          1 year ago

          If they support Macs then whatever these things’ market share is, I suppose.

          • sheepyowl@lemmy.sdf.org
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            1 year ago

            Wikipedia is using this site as the source, and that site shows around 20% market share for Mac. Linux is at 3% and ChromeOS is at 4%, so if you combine them and double that it still isn’t at 75% of the market share Mac has.

            This isn’t mentioning that dealing with Linux compatibility is more annoying than Mac or Windows compatibility. Macs are very uniform, Windows has a giant making sure everything is compatible, and Linux has 900 distros that will never agree to co-operate.