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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. In the United States alone, the market share for Linux is nearly 12% now for the whole month and Cloudflare stats suggest peaks of up to 25% (!) Linux desktop usage on certain days and times.

The trendline suggests this is just the start. When will companies realize they cannot ignore Linux anymore?

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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I suspect the data is tainted by scrapers claiming to be a Linux desktop because that doesn't have the same fingerprinting systems.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's one of the industries Mozilla announced a while ago they'd go into.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Mozilla is getting into fingerprinting? Do you have a source or something more for me to search with?

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago

Into providing web browsing to LLM agents as a service.