Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines
arstechnica.com
Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research firm Statcounter.

    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.

    Since June, ChromeOS adoption took a bit of a dive, representing 2.27 percent of the worldwide market last month.

    Windows dominance, meanwhile, mostly increased between June and February, when the Microsoft OS was reportedly on 72.17 percent of computers.

    Ultimately, the big OS players are still, by far, Windows and macOS, which represented 87.59 percent of desktop OSes in February.

    Still, it’s interesting to watch usage of the open source OS grow, especially as fragmentation and app discovery improve.

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