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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA (ostechnix.com)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The journey of Linux has been one of slow but steady progress, accelerating in recent years. It took eight years to go from 1% to 2% (by April 2021), then just 2.2 years to reach 3% (June 2023), and a mere 0.7 years to hit 4% (February 2024). Now, here we are, at over 5% in the USA! This exponential growth suggests that we're on a promising upward trend.

The article was written this month, so it's conveniently ignoring the fact that the rise from 4% to 5% took 18 months. That's actually a huge slowdown in uptake, not an acceleration.

But I'm glad it's at 5%, even if it's only in the US. Now let's get there globally, and keep it going...

Mind you, the usage on the desktop, as the article says, is probably actually a significant bit higher than 5%, thanks to Unknown, and if you include ChromeOS, which personally it should be IMO.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Thanks to Trump, there appears to be some initiatives in Europe for governments to switch to open source. It seems they want to try and get out of relying on US companies for their technology. That would make a large jump in the user base.

They have tried before, and not had the best luck in dropping US vendors. Things seem to run out of steam at some point and they switch back. It will be interesting to see if things stick more this time.

I'm pulling for them to succeed.

this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025

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