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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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[-] Mio@feddit.nu 19 points 1 day ago

But it is only in the US and not globally. Anyway, competition is good.

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[-] land@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 days ago

Jumped to Bazzite never looked back. Let's goooo

[-] dtrain@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago
[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 18 points 2 days ago

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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[-] med@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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?

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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