2026-08-02T05:55:06.663543Z

Statcounter is now showing 10% Linux market share on desktops in North America

Cloudflare is also showing the same trend: Linux usage on Desktops is rising. You can also filter the Cloudflare data to “likely human” and it still shows the same trend

radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupB…

gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america

StatCounter Global StatsDesktop Operating System Market Share North America | Statcounter Global StatsThis graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in North America based on over 3 billion monthly page views.

2026-08-02T07:00:48.395826Z

vermaterc@vermaterc@lemmy.ml

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Replying to @⁨muelltonne@feddit.org⁩

Any chance most of this traffic is just bots hosted on Linux?

2026-08-02T07:36:44.103606Z

JensSpahnpasta@JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org

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Replying to @⁨vermaterc@lemmy.ml⁩

You can filter the cloudflare data for “likely automated” and “likely human” and that gives you ~6% Linux in the last 4 weeks. Cloudflares main business is bot and DDOS protection on a global scale, so their numbers will be the best you can get:

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