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Most charts I've seen indicate Linux already passed 5% usage worldwide.



PSA: Statcounter data is garbage, please stop referring to them.

This data is based on their own tracking solution customers, which is only about 0.3-0.6% of all websites (none of the big ones) and therefore highly self-selected.

Note that "unknown" is basically the inverse curve to Windows and has risen from 6 to 16% within the last year. In India, "unknown" has 55% market share. They don't give any explanation for this absolute failure of analytics, which is telling me that they really don't care at all.

There's no way to know within this context what "unknown" really is, but what I can tell you for sure is that any statistic based on this kind of data is absolutely useless.



I don't really like linking to X, but there's also this "comprehensive" snapshot involving several more sources (which might be self-selecting in their own ways...): https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1999524735424823413


Note that they count the distribution ChromeOS as separate from other Linux, for me they add up to 7%.

But they also show both Android and iOS at 0% which makes me think the dataset is not really representative.


Android and iOS don't show because it's filtered for desktop.

I can’t distinguish the colors of the Linux and MacOs colors on that chart.


You can turn individual lines on and off on the chart by clicking on the legend.


Depends on how you count it




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