Linux market share passes 4% for first time ( arstechnica.com )

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.

anlumo ,

Well, Microsoft is doing everything they can to get people to switch to Linux right now...

fossilesque ,

For those that are stuck with it: https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools

AtmaJnana ,

You heard it here first.

2024: Year of the Linux Desktop

NotAtWork ,

1991: Year of the Linux Desktop

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BombOmOm ,
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2023 was officially the year of the Linux laptop for me. The year of the linux desktop for myself may or may not be this year.

mindlight ,

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

TrickDacy ,

Some sites actively sabotage the user experience and usability if the OS is not identified as Windows

Never heard of this and highly doubt it, but if it were true that's 100% not a website I want to use, so they'd be doing me a favor.

mindlight ,

You're free to whatever opinion you might have but it's not a secret that Google used to change their search page to a more limited one if you were using Firefox.

Hence people created add-ons to change the User Agent to mimic Chrome when accessing Google.

Edit: I just reread your comment and noticed that you only quoted the part about Windows.

I'll just let my comment remain but it's okay that you're having an opinion that spoofing OS when accessing websites is not needed.

TrickDacy ,

I'm well aware of that. Browser and OS aren't the same thing. Weird.

mindlight ,

I had to check if I was alone on this...I wasn't. First hit on a quick Google:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/z5sidv/me_every_time_a_web_page_doesnt_work_because/

So yeah, not alone... this is the hill I'm dying on😁

TrickDacy ,

I've been daily driving Linux for over 3 years and don't remember ever seeing it. And as a web developer I know the only way that would happen is if a shitty business decision mandated it.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

LOL this is not the market share of Linux.

This is the share of Linux in one certain market of web surfers.

ilmagico ,

Yeah, misleading headline. They're talking about the linux desktop, and based just on browser stats. Marked share of linux as a whole, including all datacenters, servers, cloud infrastructure, and heck, throw in IOT devices, android, routers, etc, I'm pretty sure it's the dominant OS already.

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