Comment on Linux market share passes 4% for first time
ilmagico@lemmy.world 6 months agoYeah, misleading headline. They’re talking about the linux desktop, and based just on browser stats. Marked share of linux as a whole, including all datacenters, servers, cloud infrastructure, and heck, throw in IOT devices, android, routers, etc, I’m pretty sure it’s the dominant OS already.
I just realized… Add in every tv sold this decade, the box bought got because the smart TV sucks, and the third one you got because it was cheap. Probably blue ray players too, if you have one.
That’s gotta beat PC sales several times over on its own… We truly live in an absurd world
Linux has conquered the universe literally everywhere apart from the use-case it was originally made for - home PCs.
And tbh, I’d imagine it’d be dominant there too if it weren’t for anti-competitive behaviour from Microsoft.
YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No doubt it’s the most widely run OS, I think the significance is akin to the difference between ios and android. Android dominates smart phones as a whole but ios still generates far more revenue, giving them arguably more power. So while linux is more widely used, microsoft still dictates computing for the majority of people.