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Windows Under 60% as Linux Hits a Yearly High: Full Breakdown
(linuxstans.com)
Windows just had its worst month on record. StatCounter’s newly published numbers for June 2026 put worldwide desktop market share for Windows at 56.61%, the first time it has ever fallen below 60% in the history of the dataset. Linux closed the same month at 4.36%, its highest number in a year. The r/linux crowd found the chart within hours, and the thread that followed was half celebration, half cross examination.
Here’s what the data actually says, what it probably doesn’t say, and why the comments didn’t believe it for a second.
I wonder what "Unknown: 21.45%" consists of. That is almost as much as OSX, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS combined "11.89+4.48+4.36+1.21 = 21,94". This is a huge chunk. Also why is macOS and OS X listed separately, as they are basically the same group of operating systems. I mean we group all Windows into one, and even all Linux into one.
'Unknown' is the secret OS all the cool kids are using. But we won't tell you what it is!
It’s Arch.
Arch is the endgame.
FreeBSD
it means 21% are using some tracking prevention. Probably a lot of Linux users in here. This is good. And then there're Linux users like me who pop one time as Chromium on mac, Edge on windows, firefox on atari...
It doesn't necessary mean Linux. Given than Windows is going rapidly down and people get fed up with Windows a lot, but can't or don't want to switch to Linux, it is also probable that a lot of people go into stealth mode. Lot of YouTubers and media talk about the issues now. Then off course you have those niches grouped together like BSD and other systems, Tor browser and so on. It's just a curious thing, because that makes a huge chunk of the entire user base.
My curiosity is, consists Unknown a collection of many small groups or is there a huge group responsible?
2026 is the year of the TempleOS desktop.
How do you do that?
I use Chameleon Firefox extension to shuffle and spoof many things, incuding user agent