No, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died, because the entire spike appears to be driven by AI bots. Almost every month, we […]
  • novafunc@discuss.tchncs.de
    233·
    2 days ago

    Overall probably closer to the truth.

    I wish people didn’t obsess over these large numbers as much. Like when Linux suddenly hit 5% on Steam when that was clearly just an outlier and was destined to fall right back down.

    • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk
      1·
      1 day ago

      Honestly it seems like they more or less identified all of the former unidentified users, and it turns out the vast vast majority of which are on unix based systems.

      If this goes right down again, I’d imagine the unidentified users to go up - But would be a decent indication for a lot of traffic being scrapers

    • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
      131·
      2 days ago

      The only interesting thing about the numbers is that eventually, people outside the tech bubble will pick up on it and think about seeing what the fuss is about and if it’s a solution for them and then maybe also switching.

      In that sense: I “heard” that the number is 20% actually. Windows is so over. It’s true. Pass it on.

      • novafunc@discuss.tchncs.de
        7·
        2 days ago

        Something strange with the March 2026 results was that it had two new distro entries, “0 64 bit” at 17.60% and “64 bit” at 8%. In April, one of those entries disappeared and the other’s share dropped significantly. In May, both were gone entirely and Linux was back to a more reasonable marketshare of 4%.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Because these numbers experience wild fluctuations on a regular basis. Does it make sense to you that people are just joining and quitting Windows by the masses simultaneously?

      • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        There was nothing that would have explained a more than doubling of Linux desktop market share.

        It was not that difficult to come up with a more likely explanations and some people where quick to mention AI crawlers/agents, which did actually explode in numbers.