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
On the one hand, this is crazy. On the other hand, I don’t even really care anymore since I found my “forever”-OS in Linux some years ago. Once I made the switch I stopped thinking about it, it just works.
Yes but which distro😅
Y’all, not it’s not. Bots, maybe, but also what’s the source of this data?
This chart lists Mac OS and OSX as 2 different lines. You trust this data because it confirms your biases?
Mac OS and OSX seem to be reported separately apparently because many browsers don’t distinguish them?
Just something I read on Reddit, not sure if true.
according to what i’ve seen on reddit (amazing source i know), safari reports itself as OS X while other browsers report themselves as macOS
Many Linux users boast about using multiple computers for redundant tasks, as well as virtual machines. -It doesn’t even have to be bots. They’ve published on various sites like Reddit how to manipulate the steam survey pop-up. Don’t trust any stats on Linux. -Even if it was part of the US census, they couldn’t get an accurate number.
Any chance most of this traffic is just bots hosted on Linux?
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:
I would think most of it, since when you filter for other regions (Europe, Asia, etc), you don’t get such a strong trend. So if it is mostly driven by the US, I would exclude single users to be the cause. I don’t think there is any reason the user market would be this different there from other parts of the world.
