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Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines


Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research firm Statcounter. Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views. Advertisement Windows dominance, meanwhile, mostly increased between June and February, when the Microsoft OS was reportedly on 72.17 percent of computers.

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