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It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share

Wednesday July 16, 2025. 03:56 PM , from BoingBoing
It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share
The number of people using Linux on their home computers reached 5% for the first time this year, according to numbers tracked by StatCounter. And that's not including ChromeOS and other tailored cuts. The threshold, marking a certain level of success for free software advocates and users, was so long in coming that even the old jokes don't make sense anymore: are even 5% of computers sold to consumers desktops nowadays? — Read the rest
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