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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 15 hours ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev
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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.

The trendline suggests this is just the start.

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[-] homes@piefed.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

That’s what I thought at first, too, but i remembered that these statistics are typically gathered via browser machine id reporting, so…

Safari probably reports as “macOS“ and I bet Firefox and chrome report as “Mac OS X“

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