People still call Linux “niche”, but the numbers say otherwise.
If you count Android (which runs the Linux kernel), Linux is the most dominant operating system on Earth.
• Android Linux runs on ~3.5 to 4 billion active devices
• Windows sits at ~1.4 to 1.6 billion
• iOS around ~1.3 to 1.5 billion
• macOS ~150 to 200 million
That is before counting servers, cloud infrastructure, supercomputers, routers, TVs, cars, and embedded systems where Linux already dominates.
Linux may not own the desktop, but it owns the internet, the cloud, mobile, and most of the devices quietly running the modern world.
Linux is not niche. Desktop Linux is niche. The kernel is everywhere.
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