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		dangus 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opport... I think they do care. In the gaming community, Ubuntu has gone from about 40% to 10% marketshare since 2018. https://youtu.be/Pwt216nn0zE Now, you might say this is because of the influence of SteamOS, but I think you’d be hard pressed to argue that Ubuntu has been getting more popular overall. Linux users have a choice while iOS and Android users essentially don’t.

charcircuit 2 days ago [–]

I am talking in relation server market share since the ad is targeted towards people running servers.

dangus 1 day ago | [–]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Ubuntu server has lost marketshare to other Linux distributions, but I don’t know that I have any way to verify it.

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