They count based on useragent info from accesses to websites using statcounter analytics.

You can check the graph for all OSes from all devices combined in statcounter, and linux is also showing a growth, so it’s a real increase in usage.

Is your 2 in 1 one of those baytrail cpus with some atom z sonething? If so, they’re really problematic with linux, since they were released, due to some obscure stuff in their soc. I remember even people who formatted and reinstalled windows losing functionality.

Don’t be so hard at yourself. We all have dumb thoughts here and there. It doesn’t look like so because people usually only externalize the good ones.