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

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1vcpk8i/linux_desktop_market_share_has_hit_over_10_in/
47•dviola•2h ago

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IAmGraydon•1h ago
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...

benjaminl•53m ago
It’s still really strange that Linux is several times larger than ChromeOS. I would not have guessed this. And I daily drove Linux for years.
abdullahkhalids•50m ago
If you increase the date range to 12 months, you see that (with "likely human"), linux usage jumped from 3-4% to 5%-6% in the last 1.5 months. Something changed.

ChromeOS jumped down several points in the same time period. So maybe some update of ChromeOS got misconfigured?

SwellJoe•31m ago
6%-14% (throughout the day, for some reason it's most popular late at night, Steam Box and other gamers, maybe?) is still the largest it's ever been, though, and it's presumably not getting smaller.

It's about the same as Firefox share, which is getting smaller.

bawolff•54m ago
I imagine a big part of the puzzle is that many people do not even use laptops/desktops regularly anymore, just phones and tablets
nwah1•52m ago
Also, Chromebooks.
Brian_K_White•20m ago
I don't think I've ever seen a single chromebook in the wild being used by a real person for real. I am sure they exist of course. I must have even seen one and forgotten it. But in all the years since they have existed, and all the varied people I've come in contact with in all those years, if I can't think of any, then the percentage is low.

I think a relative's kid had one issued in high school a few years ago. There you go. One out of who knows how many hundreds, and that one was not even a voluntary purchase. In fact that same kid built himself a budget desktop gaming & streaming rig when deciding what to do with his own money. So I wouldn't even call him a chromebook user. The chromebook was just school equipment he had to operate like a copier or projector.

hedgehog•53m ago
https://archive.is/kaef0
bigfatkitten•51m ago
The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.
wmf•38m ago
The last release of OS X was 11 years ago but this site shows it having over twice as many users as macOS. It's totally implausible.
Caligatio•23m ago
I haven't done any investigation but some scraper and/or bot configuration uses OS X as its user agent.

I run an unpublished service used by 1s of people and was hit by an influx of supposed OS X user agents that didn't correspond to my actual user base.

wmf•42m ago
I guess Steam OS counts as Linux?
ediamondscience•42m ago
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
paxys•37m ago
Source: vibes
rvz•29m ago
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.

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

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