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jajuuka 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

A growth of 4% over 20 years is not an increasing rate. And yes, 4% marketshare is microscopic. macOS has a bigger share but you wouldn't say macOS is massive. Posts like this are cheerleading OS's because everything needs to be a zero sum competition.

Hasnep 6 months ago [–]

But it's also not not an increasing rate, there's not enough information to know if the rate is increasing or not.

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