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  • TropicalDingdongEnglish
    261·
    8 months ago

    What if its exponential growth?

    Then we should expect that in ~35 years, 200% of users will be using desktop linux.

    • ColeSlothEnglish
      100·
      8 months ago

      The math chec…wait, no. That math doesn’t check out at all.

      • HupfEnglish
        120·
        8 months ago

        It is an older math, Sir. I was going to let them pass.

      • agent_flounderEnglish
        20·
        8 months ago

        Naw, it just means everyone will have two Linux computers!

        • A_Random_IdiotEnglish
          40·
          8 months ago

          I mean, I currently have 3 linux computers… sooooo…

      • TropicalDingdongEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago8 months ago

        Ok, fine, I’ll do the actual curve fitting instead of just estimating.

        Eyeballing it, were saying 1% in 2013, 2% in 2021, 3% in 2023?

        Gives us a fit of…

        0.873 * exp(0.118 * x)

        So…

        Correct the equation and solve for x

        x_target = np.log(200 / a) / b

        Calculate the actual year

        year_target = 2013 + x_target

        print(year_target)

        In ~2058 everyone will be using two linux desktops at once.

        • ColeSlothEnglish
          20·
          8 months ago

          If you don’t think of the increase in speed of new users as continuing to increase exponentially.

          • TropicalDingdongEnglish
            21·
            8 months ago

            Isn’t that the point of the exponent in the exponential function?

    • AlecStewart1stEnglish
      20·
      8 months ago

      2060 - The True and Definitive Year of the Linux Desktop (maybe, probably not but hopefully)