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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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[–] Sina@beehaw.org 14 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Statcounter considers me a Win user due to the Win user agent I'm using, this is not a rare behavior in the Linux space..

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Honestly didn't believe the year of the linux desktop would be this year. I say it every year as a meme and it's actually here

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

Could be exponential growth.

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Curious about how popular enterprise/backend is.

[–] bargu@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Servers are like 90% Linux.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you're using the web, you're being served by Linux. If you're using a supercomputer, it's running Linux. Etc, etc

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Linux is so much more stable than windows and its free+open source so everyone uses Linux on servers.

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