Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:

After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.

Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it’s growing fast.

  • med@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    16 days ago

    Hang on though, if it’s web stats, how many of those impressions are ai bots scraping training data claiming to be Firefox users?

    Don’t those likely read as Linux from how they fingerprint on TCP connections?

    • voodooattack@lemmy.world
      10·
      16 days ago

      The last thing a scraper wants is to stand out. Most scrapers out there masquerade as Windows+Chrome on PC. It’s not hard to spoof a user agent and any scrapers that identify uniquely get blocked real fast.