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Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:

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.

Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it's growing fast.

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[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The key point is that Europe's governments are ditching MS one by one. One of the state governments of India, that of Kerala, is also fostering a local chapter for open source and Linux.

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Curious about how popular enterprise/backend is.

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[–] dil@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

I think ppl get terminal anxiety but thats less and less of an issue, like you don't need to ever touch it because of stuff like octopi, software/discover/bazaar,etc. I remember just getting anxious thinking id forget a command I really need to remember and I wouldn't have internet axis and id be fked (not an issue lol)

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

I should work on this at some stage

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Things will really take-off if Linux hits 10%.

Actually, if it hits 10%, I think it could go all the way.

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