Linux market share passes 4% for first time
Linux market share passes 4% for first time
Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.
We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.
I always look forward to the penguin images on articles about Linux
to the moon 🚀
Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views.
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Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device. For our search engine stats, we analyze every page view referred by a search engine. For our social media stats, we analyze every page view referred by a social media site. We summarize all this data to get our Global Stats information.
So... because I am blocking any and all trackers, I may not count towards this at all? Presumably the same is true of many Lemmy users.
I've been a regular user of Debian and Ubuntu for the last 20 years and even though I love the idea of Linux taking market share from Windows the article doesn't in any way analyze the reliability of the statistics.
Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views.
So... How reliable is this actually? There are a millions reasons for me to fake which is and web browser in using. Some sites actively sabotage the user experience and usability if the OS is not identified as Windows or the web browser is not Chrome/Edge.
I've been working IT since the 90's and there's not a 4% market share of Linux when I look at my friends and colleagues that works IT. The ones I know that doesn't work IT definitively don't use Linux. Att least not in other things than Steam Deck and Android (Linux as in "modified kernel") and maybe some premade img for RPi
That's a significant bump since June.
I'm eagerly optimistic about the future of Linux smartphones, as well. I would have already jumped ship if phones like the Librem 5 or the Pinephone had better cameras. Exciting times for Linux folks.
We should each create 5 small VMs with a Linux desktop on them and keep them running.
We'll kick it up to like 5%!
I hope there's geometric progression somewhere.
Many Linux distributions suck, and the way many people use Linux sucks too, but it'd still be a bit better world if Linux would be mainstream OS.
Even better if that'd be NetBSD, of course. OpenBSD if performance would be better. FreeBSD - just better.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research firm Statcounter.
Statcounter says it gets its desktop operating system (OS) usage stats from tracking code installed on over 1.5 million global websites generating over 5 billion monthly page views.
Since June, ChromeOS adoption took a bit of a dive, representing 2.27 percent of the worldwide market last month.
Windows dominance, meanwhile, mostly increased between June and February, when the Microsoft OS was reportedly on 72.17 percent of computers.
Ultimately, the big OS players are still, by far, Windows and macOS, which represented 87.59 percent of desktop OSes in February.
Still, it’s interesting to watch usage of the open source OS grow, especially as fragmentation and app discovery improve.
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