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I think this points to the importance of a marketing team. Now, this is StatCounter, so grain of salt in the actual figures, but it's got Linux sitting at 4.39% worldwide desktop market share. That's pretty solid. ChromeOS is way back with 1.21%. Here's the question though. When was the last time you went into any store that sells computers and saw a Linux computer, but NOT a ChromeOS system. I see ChromeOS all the time. No Linux. Marketing is important.

https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/
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Vincent Tunru · 13w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqcggwd2qltel960zmd6emshclhdfk2na2k2dcmlwkfhgflfn6at4qwcz6pq Make that heaps and heaps of salt...
Matt (It's really me) Hartley · 13w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqcggwd2qltel960zmd6emshclhdfk2na2k2dcmlwkfhgflfn6at4qwcz6pq You're right. It's tricky. I've worked for two Linux centric hardware vendors. And I'm aware of the why it's never likely to be on store shelves. That said, you're right and it's a val...
Ric · 13w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqcggwd2qltel960zmd6emshclhdfk2na2k2dcmlwkfhgflfn6at4qwcz6pq technically ChromeOS is Linux ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS ), just not GNU. That is an interesting point though - the high street does stock ChromeOS pretty much exclusively...
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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqcggwd2qltel960zmd6emshclhdfk2na2k2dcmlwkfhgflfn6at4qwcz6pq Looks like the largest gain is for "Unknown". Assuming this is based on user-agent strings, I gues that means a rising number of agents not reporting an OS. Could be AI-scrapers?