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Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73% (gs.statcounter.com)
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It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

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[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is clearly a statistic about PCs, otherwise the share wouldnt be ~73% windows. So the decline of the desktop PC doesnt really matter here

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The people who are more likely to retain a PC and not just use a phone, are more likely to be tech literate power users.

This selects against casual windows users, and selects for hardcore Linux users