Note: Linux is hard to make great achievements in the field of general desktop OS

According to NetApplications, Linux applications have already exceeded 1% of the market share. Although this is an important milestone in Linux, Linux may never become an important participant in a desktop operating system.

Linux, as a server operating system, has always been very successful. However, in the general PC market, there is no way to catch up with the share in the server market, the common client exceeded 1% because Linux already has many application functions and is pre-installed on computers of computer vendors such as Dell.

Steven Vaughn-Nicolas believes that Linux will eventually account for 10% of the market share ~ 20%, but analysts believe that this prediction is a little impractical. They believe that the Linux market share will not exceed 5%, or even 2%, it will be very difficult.

Analysts believe that although Linux has played a good role in the server market, it is almost hard to detect its existence in the general PC market. Although Linux is getting easier to use, he has many variants. When we want to install the application software on Linux, we will find it too difficult.

Will Linux exceed 1% of the market share? At present, about 30% of netbooks use Linux. Therefore, it is too difficult to develop Linux in a desktop computer.