Another fresh month and so we have the latest operating system market share details from Statcounter, and it's another impressive showing for Linux from August 2024.
  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure how true this is, but I read somewhere that when Mac got above 5% market share, it suddenly got a lot more mainstream support.

    I wonder if that means we’re are a year or two away from Linux as a mainstream option.

    I’d love to have an arm based Linux laptop with software support for one of my critical work apps.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The problem is I don’t think I believe those numbers represent actual desktop use as an exclusive desktop use platform.

      They’re just ‘someone visited a website with a linux user agent’, which could mean an awful lot of things ranging from someone doing automated scraping with a headless chrome, to an actual user, to someone just plain lying about what OS they’re using in order to break fingerprinting.

      The number goes up and down WAY too much percentage-wise between months for it to be a really good measure of how much linux on the desktop there actually is, as much as I’d like it to be true :/