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Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why
www.techspot.com/news/113326-linux-cracked-10-desktop-usage-north-america-but.html
TechSpotLinux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure whyThe shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while macOS saw only limited movement over the...
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
10.61% in June 2026, up from 3.56% in May
Tripling in ONE MONTH.
Yeah, I’m sorry everyone. As much as all of us love Linux and (rightfully) hate Microslop, that’s a jump that simply cannot be explained just by human users.
Data from Cloudflare Radar appears to support that explanation. Cloudflare reportedly recorded a similar rise in Linux traffic, but the spike largely disappeared when its data was filtered to include only traffic identified as human. The comparison is not a direct match for StatCounter’s methodology, but it provides a strong indication that bots and automated systems are responsible for much of the sudden increase.
Replying to @Enkrod@feddit.org
Thing is, “Cloudflare identified this as a normal browser used by a human” doesn’t mean it actually is a normal browser with a human in the driver’s seat. There are going to be both false positives and false negatives (a browser puppeted by Selenium is still a human-usable browser, after all, and could even be taken over by a human in mid-session; by contrast, a browser whose settings have been chosen by a privacy advocate may make some expected indicators unavailable). So it’s hard to make any useful inferences.
Replying to @Enkrod@feddit.org
Partially sarcastic, but I did convince 3 people to switch to Linux this year