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Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) πŸ“ˆπŸ§ (gs.statcounter.com)
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this rate by 2038 windows will be at 50% market share and by 2069 it'll be at 0%.

Mac is at ~20% and quite well known already, so maybe 20% is the market share where even commoners (non-tech folk) will know of linux and use it. Still have a ways to go folks...

How that was calculated

  1. Export the data into CSV from the historical chart
  2. Change the date to an index starting at 0
  3. copy into https://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/linear2/
  4. Copy formula into desmos (replace "X" with "x")
  5. Add x*0 + 50 and x*0 to find the points where 50% and 0% are reached
  6. Use datetime calculator and just add the number of months to 2009-01-01

There's probably a better tool, but a 5 minute search didn't find one for me 🀷

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[–] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 month ago

I respond to your estimates with the customary xkcd