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Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america/#monthly-200901-202607

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP

Cloudflare stats also seem to support peaks of 15% usage but around 9-10% on average. In the United States alone, the market share for Linux is nearly 12% now for the whole month and Cloudflare stats suggest peaks of up to 25% (!) Linux desktop usage on certain days and times.

The trendline suggests this is just the start. When will companies realize they cannot ignore Linux anymore?

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[–] [S] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I've noticed some pretty big spikes in download stats for certain distros like CachyOS and Bazzite, too. I've seen a lot of stories of people churning through Linux in the past and recently coming back to it because the software has matured so much and Windows and OSX are enshittifying.

I think datacenter use may be part of it- usage peaks at the middle of the working day and the highest peaks are on Monday. Its also possible a lot of companies related to AI swapped to Linux distros on workforce computers to reduce headaches in managing AI workloads. There is something that happened July 1st-6th that caused the trendline to accelerate, maybe Kimi K3 news and market shocks? But it should be noted Bazzite and CachyOS use peaked around this time as well.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Apparently Windows 11 sent out an EOL notice for October 2026 recently too. https://www.tech2geek.net/windows-11-24h2-support-ends-on-october-13-2026-heres-how-to-stay-protected/

    Steam Machine also came out and sold around 20k machines in the USA. I also wouldn't discount how good LLMs are at guiding people through "complicated" things like swapping to Linux. GPT for example suggests moving to Linux on first prompt after asking how to fix the windows 11 eol message. Seems like a perfect storm that led to a ton of people swapping to Linux for a wide variety of reasons.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    windows 11 eol

    What? How can Windows 11 already be EOL? And just in a few months!?

    Is there just not going to be any Windows anymore? Or are they planning a surprise release of Windows 12 (AI prompt only edition) within the next month or two?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    because the software has matured so much and Windows and OSX are enshittifying.

    Honestly, this is the reason I like Linux so much better.

    Corpo OSes tend to get worse with every update. But Linux gets better with every update.

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