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Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 49 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

For NA desktop usage, StatCounter lists Linux as:

  • 3.56% in May
  • 6.14% in June
  • 10.61% in July

Lemmy: "Sure, why not."

[–] Warehouse@piefed.ca 5 points 5 hours ago

Canada doesn't show this increase either, going from 3.1-5.6-3.8. Mexico did increase from 2.6 to about 6 percent, and that 6 percent was consistent for June and July.

@theblacklounge@lemmy.zip might be correct in that it's webscrapers.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, something is fucky with these numbers. Is there a corresponding drop in Windows/Mac numbers? Or is this due to a large number of new machines appearing out of nowhere?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 12 hours ago

It's proportional, so by definition there's a corresponding drop. But there's no explanation for why it's happened.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.today 33 points 15 hours ago

haha. no my thought exactly. but ya know what - I will take it for face value and overreact.
because fuck windows

[–] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 12 points 13 hours ago

Is it webscrapers?

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 4 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Steam machine and Steam OS for non Steam devices?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm sure they've worked to raise awareness that Linux is a great alternative to Windows, but they aren't directly making this large of a difference.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Steam machine sales numbers are nowhere near high enough for that

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

I have not seen any numbers for the sales other than an estimated 12k/week.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

So instead of it being crazy in itself that Linux use should triple within a few months, you suggest that a tiny fragment of the Linux ecosphere alone is responsible?
I think the more likely explanation here is that the collection of data or use of the data behind the stat is flawed.