Why people keep flocking to Linux in 2025 (and it's not just to escape Windows)
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By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap.

In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely.

In addition, ChromeOS comes in at 3.67%, which strikes me as much too low. Leaving that aside, ChromeOS is a Linux variant. It just uses the Chrome web browser for its interface rather than KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, or another Linux desktop environment. Put all these together, and you get a Linux desktop market share of 11.37%. Now we’re talking.

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    25·
    19 days ago

    In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely.

    This is where I stopped reading. “Educated guess”, my ass. Let’s call it what it actually is: wild speculation. ZDnet lets just anyone write articles, I guess.

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
      2·
      17 days ago

      This idiot has been writing articles over there for decades. He has always been pro Linux which is nice. Unfortunately, he has also always been an idiot.

      • onlooker@lemmy.ml
        1·
        17 days ago

        I did not know that. It’s not that I don’t appreciate his enthusiasm, but articles like this do more harm than whatever good he thinks he’s doing.

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    102·
    18 days ago

    And then what? Talking about what? That Linux is big enough to get attracted by scammers, hackers or more worst adobe.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      that seems to spell doom for linux as it’s share is larger according to this report.

  • GhostOfHoxha@lemmy.ml
    72·
    19 days ago

    Haven’t seen math like this since Bernie Bros were coping about superdelegates (it was me I was Bernie Bros)