c/technology · by sanitation@lemmy.today · 33d

Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter

https://www.xda-developers.com/linuxs-market-share-in-north-america-has-breached-10-statcounter/

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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 33d (12 replies)

For NA desktop usage, StatCounter lists Linux as:

3.56% in May
6.14% in June
10.61% in July

Lemmy: "Sure, why not."

sanitation@lemmy.today · 41 pts · 33d

haha. no my thought exactly. but ya know what - I will take it for face value and overreact.
because fuck windows

Dookieman12@piefed.social · 26 pts · 33d (2 replies)

Yeah, something is fucky with these numbers. Is there a corresponding drop in Windows/Mac numbers? Or is this due to a large number of new machines appearing out of nowhere?

frongt@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 33d (1 reply)

It's proportional, so by definition there's a corresponding drop. But there's no explanation for why it's happened.

nomidor@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 31d

Yes, in percentages. But the question was about absolute numbers, I think.

TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 33d

Is it webscrapers?

Warehouse@piefed.ca · 14 pts · 33d

Canada doesn't show this increase either, going from 3.1-5.6-3.8. Mexico did increase from 2.6 to about 6 percent, and that 6 percent was consistent for June and July.

@theblacklounge@lemmy.zip might be correct in that it's webscrapers.

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 33d (5 replies)

Steam machine and Steam OS for non Steam devices?

Dookieman12@piefed.social · 13 pts · 33d (2 replies)

Steam machine sales numbers are nowhere near high enough for that

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 33d (1 reply)

I have not seen any numbers for the sales other than an estimated 12k/week.

Eheran@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d

That's nothing for the scale of OS market share.

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d

So instead of it being crazy in itself that Linux use should triple within a few months, you suggest that a tiny fragment of the Linux ecosphere alone is responsible?
I think the more likely explanation here is that the collection of data or use of the data behind the stat is flawed.

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 32d

I'm sure they've worked to raise awareness that Linux is a great alternative to Windows, but they aren't directly making this large of a difference.

jtrek@startrek.website · 36 pts · 33d (4 replies)

Cool. Been on Linux for a couple years. No real complaints. No tinkering. It just works and is a boring-ass plasma kde desktop environment.

BladeFederation@piefed.social · 18 pts · 33d (1 reply)

KDE is only boring if you allow it to be :) it is probably the most customizable DE

morto@piefed.social · 7 pts · 32d

I think they mean boring as a compliment, as in stable

Sxan@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 33d

Boring is good. Boring is what's needed for folks to switch. It's as boring, or exciting, as you want it to be.

I'm glad to hear your experience has gone well.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 8 pts · 33d

I like thst you can easily pick a theme to make it look like either Windows Vista or Mac depending on your mood.

Why the floating taskbar is default boggles my mind, though.

riskable@programming.dev · 19 pts · 33d (4 replies)

I did the math and these are the approximate real numbers:

US: ~30 million
World: ~105 million

That's active Linux desktops. That is, they're being used to browse the Internet regularly enough to make it into StatCounter.

Sxan@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 33d

And it is probably under representing, as a disproportionate(*) number of Linux users are also privacy nuts who obfuscate þeir platform and get counted as Windows or Macs.

(*) I can't prove þis, but I'd be willing to bet money on it.

Smoogs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d (2 replies)

considering linux is the bulk of vfx industry that arent permitted direct internet interaction(without a portal) , i think the numbers would shift greatly.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 5 pts · 33d (1 reply)

Same with servers, Linux actually the majority there for a long long time.

Sxan@piefed.zip · -3 pts · 33d

True, so þe real battle is þe desktop.

finnie@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 33d (8 replies)

Could it just be that AI web crawlers are anonymously generating a ton of Linux user-agents and throwing off the numbers?

ripcord@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 33d (7 replies)

melroy@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 33d (4 replies)

Well... Possibly yes

ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d (3 replies)

But probably no.

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 31d (2 replies)

No, Linux didn’t actually hit 10% market share. Blame bots

ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d (1 reply)

I was wrong :(

Edit: Although this looks like other people just guessing, not a confirmation

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 31d

I originally had read it as Linux usage increased by 10% and suggested it was the machine and steam os. I was wrong too.

finnie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d (1 reply)

You're so right, my bad

ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d

Thanks

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 33d

Battlefield keeps notifying me that I'll be finally switching my last and main PC to Linux, probably CachyOS. Idk what TPM 2.0 is and I don't care to find out. This update was good and I'll enjoy it while it lasts but I'm not doing a bios update or whatever will be required to keep playing. Kind of liberating feeling

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 33d

Those are rookie numbers, It should be 45%

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 5 pts · 33d (1 reply)

Just wait until the extended support for Windows 10 runs out.

jbaber@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 33d

They just extended it another year.

melroy@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 33d

It's about time

DeadDigger@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 32d (2 replies)

Ragebait/lying title, Linux is the main system for computers just desktop is dominated by windows

Joelk111@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 32d (1 reply)

I think you're just intentionally misunderstanding the title. I was able to infer that it was talking about consumer PCs.