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Linus Torvalds wins the desktop; Chromebooks outsell Macbooks

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Swapnil Bhartiya
May 23, 2016

Hey, either Macs don’t count much on the desktop, or we may have to finally lay the ‘year of the Linux desktop’ joke to rest,??? says Torvalds.

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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