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The 5 most popular Linux distributions

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Before launching into this though, I should point out that the most popular end-user Linux of all is probably in your pocket and not on your desktop. That is Android of course. With just over half of the U.S. smartphone market, and hundreds of millions of smartphones around the world, Android is the most popular Linux distribution ever… even if 99% of its users don’t realize that their Linux users.

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