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by 7e 1048 days ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...

This has it at 5.1%. But ChromeOS has a lot of corporate mojo making it work. It’s only partially open source. A lot of the good bits are closed. So that puts Linux at 2.91%. A rounding error. For 30 years.

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Your data, as of this writing, is from January 23. Consider this: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide... which fully agrees with your data and shows the combination Linux+ChromeOS above 7% in June 23.

Thanks for pointing how fast Linux on the desktop has been growing lately.

3% is probably twice as many as 10 years ago. Pretty good for people who aren't selling you anything and aren't asking you to use Linux.