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Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%
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I am still hoping it will hit 10% market share within my life time. I remember when it was predicted to hit that in 2010, obviously it didn't happen*. Of course for me personally, the year of the Linux Desktop was 2007 when I was finally able to use it as my main OS at home, I tried it before many times since 2003.
* not counting systems that use the Linux kernel but aren't considered a traditional GNU+Linux desktop.
Does that mean you don't count Alpine towards Linux market share? It mostly doesn't use any GNU stuff.
You can also compile the kernel with LLVM instead of gcc, use musl instead of glibc, and use BSD coreutils instead of GNU coreutils.
Do they use the BSD userland instead? Interesting...
Perhaps the definition isn't good enough or accurate. What would you call a system that perhaps uses Darwin kernel or Hurd plus GNU user land, or any combo of.
I think Alpine uses Busybox, but it's feasible for a Linux distro to use BSD coreutils. Not sure if any do that, though.