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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how (www.zdnet.com)
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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 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] kungen@feddit.nu 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

wtf I love Norway now? Sweden is at like 2%.

But Norway's Linux spiked up to almost 30% in July 2024 as well. So I don't really trust these sites. My guess is that it's due to Tesla's web browser or something? Tesla is the most popular electric car brand in Norway: 77k Model Y and 50k Model 3 are registered, and the only model with higher numbers is the Nissan Leaf with 81k, but that'll be taken over very shortly (so far in 2025, there have been over 11k Model Y registrations, with the next runner-up being the Toyota BZ4X with 4,6k)

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Possibly, but it does explicitly state desktop operating systems and I don't know if Tesla's would count towards that.

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 2 days ago

Wow. Impressive. And in Sweden we are only 2% or something like that. Why so many in Norway. How did you do it?

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why did go back to 9%? They all forgot about that theat or what?

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

  1. There's an uptick in 'Unknown' (currently at 26%).

  2. Linux adoption might have slowed down because India - US relations have improved since then, because Trump can be distracted by promising him trade deals. Of course the deal he wants (giving US agri companies access to the Indian market) will face opposition from farmers' unions, so I'm not sure what the govt's long-term plan is.

One good thing is that when a govt dept switches to Linux, it sort of sticks. And govt contracts are very profitable, so we'll likely see greater interest from both hardware and software companies.