ChairmanMeow comments on Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use.

Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use. (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america/#monthly-200901-202607

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP

Cloudflare stats also seem to support peaks of 15% usage but around 9-10% on average.

The trendline suggests this is just the start.

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

IIRC this was debunked some time ago, it's related to a change in OSX/MacOS that's causing Apple devices to show up as Linux.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

This makes more sense, that graph doesn't pass the sniff test. I'd be looking for some other explanation than suddenly Linux use spiked almost 3X.

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