Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by dviola » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 3:10 AM UTC

Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
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Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by IAmGraydon » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:36 AM UTC

Unfortunately, Cloudflare does not agree if you filter for "likely human", which results in 6%. If you include bots, it hits 9.3%.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=o...

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Post by bawolff » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:41 AM UTC

I imagine a big part of the puzzle is that many people do not even use laptops/desktops regularly anymore, just phones and tablets

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Post by benjaminl » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:42 AM UTC

IAmGraydon wrote: post #2

Unfortunately, Cloudflare does not agree if you filter for "likely human", which results in 6%. If you include bots, it hits 9.3%. https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=o...

It’s still really strange that Linux is several times larger than ChromeOS. I would not have guessed this. And I daily drove Linux for years.

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Post by hedgehog » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:43 AM UTC

https://archive.is/kaef0

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Post by nwah1 » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:44 AM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #3

I imagine a big part of the puzzle is that many people do not even use laptops/desktops regularly anymore, just phones and tablets

Also, Chromebooks.

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Post by bigfatkitten » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:44 AM UTC

The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.

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Post by abdullahkhalids » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:45 AM UTC

IAmGraydon wrote: post #2

Unfortunately, Cloudflare does not agree if you filter for "likely human", which results in 6%. If you include bots, it hits 9.3%. https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=o...

If you increase the date range to 12 months, you see that (with "likely human"), linux usage jumped from 3-4% to 5%-6% in the last 1.5 months. Something changed.

ChromeOS jumped down several points in the same time period. So maybe some update of ChromeOS got misconfigured?

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Post by wmf » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:53 AM UTC

I guess Steam OS counts as Linux?

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Post by ediamondscience » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 4:53 AM UTC

I don't know if the BSD folks would be happy to see it mentioned or unhappy that it's at 0%. At least you know that most of those users are human