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Linux Browser Marketshare Strikes Above 3%

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 03 2017, @01:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the almost-a-drop-in-the-bucket dept.

mrpg writes:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-3p-Browser-Market-Share

According to Net Applications' Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%.

The company is reporting a 3.37% Linux marketshare for August 2017, a rise from 2.53% a month prior and the first time they have reported the Linux desktop marketshare above 3%.

They report Windows meanwhile at 90.7%, macOS at 5.94%, and the other operating systems statistically at zero. Their monthly report can be found here.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 03 2017, @01:38PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 03 2017, @01:38PM (#563134) Journal

    There can only be so many cool kids. The rest of you are stuck with stick-in-the-mud Windows. Even the Mac Boys are cooler than you Windows people!

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by mcgrew on Sunday September 03 2017, @04:29PM (2 children)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday September 03 2017, @04:29PM (#563164) Homepage Journal

    You and the article's author seem to forget that these days, most people are on the internet with a phone or tablet, and most of them are Android, which is in fact Linux (and Macs are BSD). My guess is that more than half of all surfing is done on an Android device; computers are mostly in business, and almost all businesses are running Microsoft.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Pslytely Psycho on Monday September 04 2017, @05:10AM (1 child)

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Monday September 04 2017, @05:10AM (#563297)

      "most people are on the internet with a phone or tablet, and most of them are Android, which is in fact Linux"

      Considering the amount of malware on Android, is this something to be proudly proclaiming?
      It's quickly chasing MS down the infected rabbit hole.

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      • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @08:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @08:01AM (#563342)

        Considering the amount of malware on Android, is this something to be proudly proclaiming?

        As far as I know, most if not all Android malware is trojans. Trojans is not an OS problem, it's basically the software version of false advertising - and the OS isn't going to prevent that until we have Skynet level AI.