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OMGBuntu doesn't believe the figure http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/linux-marketshare-6-91-pe...

> The figure is impressive but is also highly irregular and out of sync with the reported Linux marketshare from other companies like StatCounter and Wikimedia.

> [...]

> Netmarketshare also stress that the graph showing Linux’s big leap is based on “preview data that has NOT been reviewed by Quality Assurance”.

Anecdotally, I was at an Erlang and Elixir event on Saturday morning. The first three speakers were using Ubuntu machines. I didn't notice what the fourth one used. Maybe it's the subject but conferences use to be MacBook monocultures with an occasional Linux or Windows machine.



September is when school starts in the US, leading to increased Chromebook usage(?)

That's one likely reason.





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