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Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Comments (75)

  • raincole
    OS X: 21.14%macOS: 8.6%Yeah, if you believe this kind of stats it's on yourself.Also why are you posting a random reddit link? It doesn't even match up the latest stats provided on the official source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...
  • bigfatkitten
    The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.
  • bawolff
    I imagine a big part of the puzzle is that many people do not even use laptops/desktops regularly anymore, just phones and tablets
  • gr_norm
  • toplinesoftsys
    Yes, the dam has been broken. Major linux distibutions are getting polished for many decades already and they are totally ready for the mainstream adoption. No amount of marketing will be able to reverse this trend. Considering that Big Tech is spending all their earned money (and even more by borrowing from investors) on AI, nobody will be even trying.
  • factorialboy
    I'd pick major Linux Desktop Environments (KDE or GNOME for instance) over macOS and Windows any day of the week. I feel 3-4x more productive on Linux.With LLMs, I've been creating little desktop apps to fill the odd gaps. For example, yesterday, I made a little offline dictation app for KDE.
  • jsnell
    Flagging since statcounter's data is just so unreliable that discussing it is like discussing last week's lottery numbers.(Just a couple of weeks ago there was an equally implausible frontpage post showing the Firefox had more than doubled in use in the US, to 12%, but only in the US, not in any other country. My money is on scraper bots identifying as Linux-Firefox, run from US IPs to minimize the impact of geo-blocking. But when Statcounter doesn't explain their methodology and doesn't care about the quality of their data, we'll never know.)
  • NitpickLawyer
    Depending on how this data is being collected, a factor could be the rise of search / fetch / scrape capabilities, added in lots of places. Agentic this, google killer that, and so on. The easiest way to parse web content nowadays is to load up a browser and drive that. And thats easier to do with linux / mac distros, both at scale (i.e. datacenter based solutions) and at home.As a bit of a side note, this year I started noticing captchas / cf verify speed bumps while browsing from the same residential ISP with the same mac laptop. I never used to get them. Maybe has to do with all that "buy a mac mini" craze that happened a while ago.
  • ediamondscience
    I don't know if the BSD folks would be happy to see it mentioned or unhappy that it's at 0%. At least you know that most of those users are human
  • IAmGraydon
    Unfortunately, Cloudflare does not agree if you filter for "likely human", which results in 6%. If you include bots, it hits 9.3%.https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=o...
  • andrewstuart
    I do not believe this. Unless it’s some sort of tricksy word game or counting android or something.There is 0% chance that 10% of desktops/laptops are running desktop Linux.
  • myaccountonhn
    I think Linux is getting a lot more popular, but not this popular.
  • hedgehog
  • padjo
    StatCounter is a joke.
  • simongray
    I don't think these numbers are correct, but desktop Linux is no doubt having its year now. So many big YouTube content creators are covering Linux content and switching to Linux specifically, since the major obstacle to switching (gaming) has now been solved. Add to that the push effect from the constant enshittification of Windows.
  • Der_Einzige
    The same people who believe these numbers also think open routers token measurements are indicative of total token demand - lol.
  • rvz
    Imagine first thinking that humans are using Linux on the Desktop after seeing this (without specifying which distro) and then realizing that it is bots which are the "desktop users" because they are using Chrome to scrape websites since forever.
  • yoyohello13
    [flagged]
  • paxys
    Source: vibes
  • wmf
    I guess Steam OS counts as Linux?