[News] A good year 2017 for Linux

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The year 2017 seemed to be a good year for the Desktop Linux market share which has seen a rise to over 3% according to statistics on Net Market Share for operating systems.

Net Market Share is a company that collects data from the browsers of site visitors. Their network includes over 40,000 websites.

To be fair, this is not the real statistics on how many Linux desktop are around across the globe and perhaps that is not possible. But this is as close as we can get.



What's the reason for such a growth?


The stats seem to include Chrome OS as Linux since it is based on a Linux Kernel. Chromebooks come pre-installed with Chrome OS and their popularity has grown lately.

Usually Chromebooks are lower end devices that have lower prices and are lightwight, so they might be attractive to students and other casual computer users.

Chrome OS might not be the only reason for the growth, as popular companies like Dell and HP also have products in their assortment that comes with Linux pre-installed.

However, i should mention that even when Linux does not dominate the market for desktop computers, it is doing so for servers and embedded devices. Also almost all of the top 500 supercomputers running on Linux.


What do you think is the reason for the growth on market share?
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