'Linux has failed to gain traction among mainstream desktop users, where it has a market share of about 2.38 per cent, or 3.59 per cent if you include ChromeOS, compared to Windows (73.04 per cent) and macOS (15.43 per cent).'
Original article: <https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/linux_kernel_30_years_old/>
It is never clear how those figures are fabricated/calculated. I can remember figures showing Apple and Android neck and neck in the smartphone market, when unit shipments were already 3:1 in the latter’s favour. Also look at the magazine rack at your local newsagents, and you will see a remarkable fraction of the computer-related magazines are about Linux -- way in access of 2.38%, more like 15%. And remember that paper magazines represent actual money being spent, not just somebody clicking on a link on a website for free.
The maker community that uses RPis and such are major Linux users as well. And a lot of them probably use an RPi running a desktop! Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 (office) +64 (7) 577-5304 (home office) http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/