Linux Hits 3% Desktop Market Share

According to Statcounter, the Linux share on the desktop has passed 3% for the first time. GamingOnLinux reports: While it has been close a couple of times, the trend according to their stats is pretty clear that Linux use has been slowly rising over the last few years. This does not include ChromeOS, even though it's based on Linux, as they track that separately so this is just plain desktop Linux. Across this year their stats show for Linux: January - 2.91%February - 2.94%March - 2.85%April - 2.83%May - 2.7%June - 3.07%

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