haha. no my thought exactly. but ya know what - I will take it for face value and overreact.
because fuck windows

Is it webscrapers?

Steam machine and Steam OS for non Steam devices?

Steam machine sales numbers are nowhere near high enough for that

I have not seen any numbers for the sales other than an estimated 12k/week.

That’s nothing for the scale of OS market share.

So instead of it being crazy in itself that Linux use should triple within a few months, you suggest that a tiny fragment of the Linux ecosphere alone is responsible?
I think the more likely explanation here is that the collection of data or use of the data behind the stat is flawed.

I’m sure they’ve worked to raise awareness that Linux is a great alternative to Windows, but they aren’t directly making this large of a difference.

Yeah, something is fucky with these numbers. Is there a corresponding drop in Windows/Mac numbers? Or is this due to a large number of new machines appearing out of nowhere?

It’s proportional, so by definition there’s a corresponding drop. But there’s no explanation for why it’s happened.

Yes, in percentages. But the question was about absolute numbers, I think.

Canada doesn’t show this increase either, going from 3.1-5.6-3.8. Mexico did increase from 2.6 to about 6 percent, and that 6 percent was consistent for June and July.

@theblacklounge@lemmy.zip might be correct in that it’s webscrapers.