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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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Ilkka Tengvall · 4w
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Vincent Tunru · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqcggwd2qltel960zmd6emshclhdfk2na2k2dcmlwkfhgflfn6at4qwcz6pq Make that heaps and heaps of salt...
Ric · 4w
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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?