Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop
According to the StatCounter, Linux on the desktop has continued to rise and remains above 4%, with this being the healthiest it's ever looked on the desktop.
First hitting over 4% in February, their March data is now in showing not just staying above 4% but rising a little once again showing the trend is clear that Linux use is rising. Slow and steady wins the race as they say.
Fudzilla:
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Linux might be getting its act together on the desktop
The open, saucy world is all a flutter over the news that Linux’s market share of the desktop market is still over four per cent and will stay there.
That's right; the underdog of operating systems is showing that it has some staying power after being a wanna-be for decades.
Notebookcheck:
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Linux desktop continues to grow with four per cent market share
The Linux operating system and open source in general form the backbone of the Internet, but Linux has not yet been able to establish itself on the desktop. However, in February this year, Statcounter, a website that counts internet traffic, reported for the first time that the free operating system had reached just over 4%, compared to 3.77% for Linux in January 2024. The data for March 2024 is now available, and Linux also landed above 4% on Statcounter.com last month.
If you include Chrome OS, which is technically a Linux derivative, it even reached 6.32% in March (Linux: 4.05%, Chrome OS: 2.27%). Windows remained at over 72% last month, with a slight upward trend, while MacOS lost almost a percentage point compared to February, landing at 14.68%. Of course, it should be noted that although Statcounter has a large sample size due to tracking over 1.5 million websites worldwide, the figures should still only be seen as trends.