For NA desktop usage, StatCounter lists Linux as:
- 3.56% in May
- 6.14% in June
- 10.61% in July
Lemmy: “Sure, why not.”
haha. no my thought exactly. but ya know what - I will take it for face value and overreact.
because fuck windowsIs it webscrapers?
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.
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?
It’s proportional, so by definition there’s a corresponding drop. But there’s no explanation for why it’s happened.
Steam machine and Steam OS for non Steam devices?
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.
Steam machine sales numbers are nowhere near high enough for that
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.
KDE is only boring if you allow it to be :) it is probably the most customizable DE
I think they mean boring as a compliment, as in stable
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.
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.
Those are rookie numbers, It should be 45%
Ragebait/lying title, Linux is the main system for computers just desktop is dominated by windows
I think you’re just intentionally misunderstanding the title. I was able to infer that it was talking about consumer PCs.
Could it just be that AI web crawlers are anonymously generating a ton of Linux user-agents and throwing off the numbers?
No
Well… Possibly yes
But probably no.
