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Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
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I'd like to see a logarithmic version of this graph. Picking out a straight line in a log graph is easier than trying to discern an exponential. I that juicy exponential.
Wow how can I invest in Linux
Here is my attempt at digitizing that plot and then log-scaling the vertical axis.
This is amazing! Thank you so much for doing this!! Would you mind telling me your process for extracting the data from the graph? Did you tediously manually extract eye-balled data-points? Or, did you run it through some software which extracted them? Or, perhaps, did you just find and use the original data source?
WebPlotDigitizer! It's a great tool.
That'll definitely come in handy. Thanks!