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These people keep bringing up “mArKeT sHaRE”

  1. Linux is free. How would it get market share?
  2. It’s quite difficult to get an accurate “market share” since user-agents can be faked.

EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.

    • testman@lemmy.ml
      81·
      2 years ago

      this
      I use any chance I get to fight against this misconception

      • rysiek@szmer.infoEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Actually, if we’re nit-picking, it means “Personal Computer”, but the colloquial meaning has shifted somewhat since the good old IBM times to first mean desktop computers (as opposed to laptops), and then to mean non-Apple computers (including laptops), which for most people means “a computer that runs Windows.”

        Which is the basis of my heavy sigh.

        • planish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          It would have been anything that implements Bios enough to boot MS-DOS, more or less.

          But now that’s not what anyone actually wants anymore since Windows, the thing people usually boot, wants UEFI instead. So I would say now it is probably anything that can run x86 code and boot Windows, even if it’s from System76 and meant to run Linux.