Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines - eviltoast

I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn’t know we already passed 4%.

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    6 months ago

    Is less than

    Percentages are the easiest statistical figure to bullshit. Just like it happens with “Linux desktop is only 4%”. We are then talking about over a hundred million PCs. PC gaming is 15% means that PC gamers are several hundred millions of devices. Sure, it is less than mobile gaming. But less doesn’t mean irrelevant, and much less a rounding error. You don’t call a fifth of the market that expends almost a quarter of the revenue a rounding error.