Imagine first thinking that humans are using Linux on the Desktop after seeing this (without specifying which distro) and then realizing that it is bots which are the "desktop users" because they are using Chrome to scrape websites since forever.
6%-14% (throughout the day, for some reason it's most popular late at night, Steam Box and other gamers, maybe?) is still the largest it's ever been, though, and it's presumably not getting smaller.
It's about the same as Firefox share, which is getting smaller.
If you increase the date range to 12 months, you see that (with "likely human"), linux usage jumped from 3-4% to 5%-6% in the last 1.5 months. Something changed.
ChromeOS jumped down several points in the same time period. So maybe some update of ChromeOS got misconfigured?
The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.
The last release of OS X was 11 years ago but this site shows it having over twice as many users as macOS. It's totally implausible.
Imagine first thinking that humans are using Linux on the Desktop after seeing this (without specifying which distro) and then realizing that it is bots which are the "desktop users" because they are using Chrome to scrape websites since forever.
I don't know if the BSD folks would be happy to see it mentioned or unhappy that it's at 0%. At least you know that most of those users are human
I imagine a big part of the puzzle is that many people do not even use laptops/desktops regularly anymore, just phones and tablets
Also, Chromebooks.
https://archive.is/kaef0
Source: vibes
I guess Steam OS counts as Linux?
Unfortunately, Cloudflare does not agree if you filter for "likely human", which results in 6%. If you include bots, it hits 9.3%.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=o...
6%-14% (throughout the day, for some reason it's most popular late at night, Steam Box and other gamers, maybe?) is still the largest it's ever been, though, and it's presumably not getting smaller.
It's about the same as Firefox share, which is getting smaller.
If you increase the date range to 12 months, you see that (with "likely human"), linux usage jumped from 3-4% to 5%-6% in the last 1.5 months. Something changed.
ChromeOS jumped down several points in the same time period. So maybe some update of ChromeOS got misconfigured?
It’s still really strange that Linux is several times larger than ChromeOS. I would not have guessed this. And I daily drove Linux for years.