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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 9 points 1 week ago

My first operating system was AmigaOS 1.3, then I didn't have a computer through my teenage years and only in 2001 I bought a PC and a magacine with a Suse Linux CD in it which I installed on that PC. But I couldn't get the 56k modem to work with it because some drivers were missing. So I had to switch for a year to Windows 2000 (or 98, I don't remember). But then I had a girlfriend who had a PC which was connected to the internet via ADSL, so I could do the research on that her computer while installing Debian on my computer from a 3.5 inch floppy disk (I found a network installer which fit on the disk). So I only had to use Windows for about a year.

There was another exception where I had a MacBook from 2008 to 2012 but other than that I've been on Linux for most of my life. Oh and I use Arch btw.