Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops
The rising cost of hardware and several other factors (including slop lunacy) are driving people to GNU/Linux. Even a GNU/Linux-hostile publisher, taking note of statCounter (where GNU/Linux is at almost 10% right now) and Clownflare, says that naysayers who call "Linux" mere "bots" are full of it. They're Microsoft boosters who cite random comments in social control media as "proof".
As SJVN puts it:
Cloudflare's dataset is much larger than StatCounter's. StatCounter monitors about a million websites, while Cloudflare keeps an eye on over 24 million websites. Cloudflare itself claims to cover about 20% of the web.A deeper look also reveals that desktop Linux use tends to peak during the work week. For example, believe it or not, on Monday, 6 July, when people were back after the 4 July holiday, Linux usage jumped to a high of 22%.
The users of these systems are not AI agents or bots, but real people. I set Cloudflare to count humans rather than bots. If you include people and bots, Linux has a 9.7% market share. That proportion is similar to StatCounter's score. By Cloudflare's count, bots alone come to 19%.
These numbers tell us that workers are leading the way to the Linux desktop. That result is not surprising. Historically, they're people who prefer control over their PCs, like open systems, or have a specific workload, such as programming or system administration, where Linux works well.
SJVN previously cited analytics.usa.gov, where GNU/Linux is measured at around 6% or close to 10% if one does not count iOS and Android (mobile).
So GNU/Linux is definitely growing, and quite quickly in fact. █
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