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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how


It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.

According to the web analysis company StatCounter, the US Linux desktop market has stepped over the 5% mark. As Bott recently said: " StatCounter's 'market share' reports are a great excuse for tech bloggers to crank out a story each month, but they bear only the most casual relation to the real world, and most of those month-to-month spikes are simply statistical noise." Over the last few years, Linux's desktop share has been slowly climbing, but its rate of growth has been accelerating.

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