Another month, another record. Linux market share has now hit 3.37% according to the netmarketshare website.
Funny, I said last time "we may hit ~3% (and hopefully stay above it) by the end of 2018.", I guess I was wrong there then?
It's worth noting that all ways of tracking it come with their own flaws. Nothing is perfect. To be honest, I don't put a massive amount of faith in them myself.
Year of the netmarketshare Linux desktop!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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In 3 years using Steam (on Ubuntu) i got my very first survey 2 days ago. So if the numbers are from those surveys, i guess they're wrong and Linux share might be even higher than those statistics.
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Quoting: whitewolfguyQuoting: TeodosioQuoting: LeopardQuoteIt's worth noting that all ways of tracking it come with their own flaws.
Flaw in here is , Chromebook's counts as Linux.
Chromebook is Linux, its problem is that it is not GNU. Still, better than the rest.
Yes, an increase of almost 1% in a month can only indicate some abnormality in the counting of the numbers. Chromebooks should be entering the Linux count, but since they are Linux, that's not entirely wrong, and it's very cool to see Linux passing 3%, maybe this call the market's attention to software and games support on Linux.
So very much this. Maybe once we reach a greater than 10% market share the GNU vs non-GNU toolchain issue should become a bigger deal and a reason to split the numbers (Chromebook isn't the first non-GNU Linux by any stretch after all, just the biggest to date) at which point also dividing them by core distro (Debian, Arch, etc) is maybe a worthwhile thing to do. At this point any growth in the Linux market share is a boon to every interested party.
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