Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
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It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

  •  ulkesh   ( @ulkesh@beehaw.org ) English
    2•2 days ago

    Do we really want that?

    As long as competition and choice continues to be the mantra of the Linux desktop, then yes, I’d love to see more and more people using it.

    We have it pretty good right now. I would actually say we’re living in a golden age of desktop Linux: there’s constant innovation, good support, you get to do pretty much everything you need, while flying under the radar.

    Very true.

    Unwanted attention from Microsoft, who I bet are not going to be doing nice things once they start getting paranoid about it.

    I mean, Ballmer called Linux a cancer pretty early on, so that ship sailed a long time ago.

    I really don’t think that large companies like Adobe will care about Linux

    Once they start losing large sums of money due to people switching and finding viable alternatives, they certainly will care. Right now Adobe has one main thing going for them – apathy and muscle memory of the aging demographic of their users. That will eventually change.

    the least we get to interact with them the better.

    Absolutely. I used to be an Adobe fan, back when Kevin Lynch was a part of it, and I was a Flex developer. Then Jobs wrote his thing about Flash, and a year later, not a month after Jobs’s death, Adobe dumps Flex – and literally overnight my position changed from Flex to HTML5 and Java.