But it is only in the US and not globally. Anyway, competition is good.
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9% in India. But this is down from a peak of ~15% late last year when the govt was worried about US sanctions and was pushing for Linux adoption.
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I went to CachyOS on my desktop full time this year. Already had Bazzite on a laptop.
There's been a few hiccups here and there, but nothing insurmountable with a little patience and practice and reading.
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Hang on though, if it's web stats, how many of those impressions are ai bots scraping training data claiming to be Firefox users?
Don't those likely read as Linux from how they fingerprint on TCP connections?
The last thing a scraper wants is to stand out. Most scrapers out there masquerade as Windows+Chrome on PC. It’s not hard to spoof a user agent and any scrapers that identify uniquely get blocked real fast.
KDE Plasma is genuinely good
Kubuntu is a drop-in replacement for Windows 10
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Exponential growth!
It makes perfect sense, the resistance of having Windows legacy software etc becomes smaller the more of that goes out of use, the resistance of everyone only knowing Windows becomes smaller with nobody even knowing Windows, and the resistance of corporate interests becomes smaller because it's all in the Web, and the Web has been corrupted and Chrome works on Linux.
So. Listen to me carefully. If Linux domination happens without FreeBSD and Haiku normalization, then things are bad.
Fuck man I saw a post in the past week that it was 5%. At this rate we'll be leaving M$ in the du$t.
The 5% story was published yesterday. This new article from today says that they trust the government site figures more than StatCounter which was cited on yesterday's story.
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Statcounter considers me a Win user due to the Win user agent I'm using, this is not a rare behavior in the Linux space..
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Honestly didn't believe the year of the linux desktop would be this year. I say it every year as a meme and it's actually here
After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.
Could be exponential growth.
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