• magikmw@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    There’s little technical reason, at least no security features were ever tested on the scale Windows is every day.

    The real reason is nobody bothers to target Linux desktop users because there’s dozens of us (dozens!) while there’s billions of Windows users. It’s about efficiently spending your money and time while investing into crime.

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      9 months ago

      between smartphones replacing desktop PCs and mac computers, I doubt that there’s “billions” of windows users left in reality.

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        9 months ago

        240 million PCs were shipped last year, with about 10% being Apple. A negligible number run Linux. If we assume 5 years average life, that’s still easily a billion active Windows devices.

        That said, devices may not be the best metric. You mentioned users, which may use many devices. For instance, I use a Windows laptop at work, Windows desktop at home, Android on my phone.

        I would use web server metrics, which are an approximate indicator of time spent on each OS.

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          9 months ago

          I believe the yearly tally from some company aggregating website traffic came out a few months back and linux had climbed over 4% of desktop usage. Linux gamers have outnumbered mac users on steam for close to a year now.