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I'm old. I don't understand it.

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[โ€“] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's a desktop operating system

[โ€“] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 days ago

I'm fairly certain desktop computers (and PCs in general, including laptops) are a very small portion of the devices that use Linux.

I expect most Linux devices are phones and tablets (Android), followed by embedded devices (though BSD probably outweighs Linux on those), followed by servers, followed by desktop computers.