Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.
Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3 percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re still far from the Year of the Linux Desktop, interest in Linux has somewhat grown lately.
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. The only adjustments the firm says it makes to this data are around removing bot activity and adjusting for Google Chrome prerendering. Note that when Statcounter analyzes desktop OSes, it also includes laptop computers, and Statcounter says it may revise its data within 45 days of publication.
For instance the guys hanging around here on stacker.news, but certainly the hodlers that do self-custody.
I think the measurement is difficult anyway because if you add some privacy to the mix then users of the Tor browser etc. on Linux are hiding as Windows user in the big mass...
More demand than ever to scrape web data for AI training. Access to data increasingly restricted at the API level. So the next best way to scrape is to emulate a user and puppet a headless browser and parse the HTML
Apple is still making record sales. This seems a more likely explanation for the increase of linux usage than "mac users are switching to FOSS".
how do they measure it? linux users are more privacy conscious and their browsers' user-agent might report a different OS.
just like firefox users are often misreported as using chrome