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Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter
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Maybe not, but surely the clouds' infrastructure, the webservers, and the mobile phones matter to people...
Moreover even if the 10% is inflated, Windows falling to 57 is crazy
Oh for sure the 10% and 57% are insane.
But not really no. Most non tech people barely realize the cloud is someone else's computer, nevermind thinking about what software that computer runs. Same thing with webservers. Phones are further obscured cause it's not expressed as Linux.
People don't know, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter
Do thinks you have no concept of matter to you typically? How can something matter to you if you have never spared a single thought for it before?