Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

It's almost certainly much higher than that

First of all, ChromeOS is Linux. It's a weird Linux, but it is Linux and can be made to run regular Linux software. It's based on Gentoo. It's not just "technically" Linux; it just straight up is. It's even more Linux than Android is.

That adds another 2.69% up to 7.69%

But also, the 4.77% Unknown is almost certainly made up of primarily Linux machines.

So really, it's a range of percentages anywhere from 7.69% to 12.46%. I would guess Linux users are at least 10% of the US market now

Source: The StatCounter pages the article is referring to for US: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

World wide is also similar: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

There we're potentially even higher: 5.33% to 14.5%. That's just shy of the worldwide Mac users! macOS + OS X is 15.35% worldwide.

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I wonder how many are Steam Deck users. It's brought Linux to a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't have tried it.
It's almost certainly much higher than that
First of all, ChromeOS is Linux. It's a weird Linux, but it is Linux and can be made to run regular Linux software. It's based on Gentoo. It's not just "technically" Linux; it just straight up is. It's even more Linux than Android is.
That adds another 2.69% up to 7.69%
But also, the 4.77% Unknown is almost certainly made up of primarily Linux machines.
So really, it's a range of percentages anywhere from 7.69% to 12.46%. I would guess Linux users are at least 10% of the US market now
Source: The StatCounter pages the article is referring to for US: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america
World wide is also similar: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/
There we're potentially even higher: 5.33% to 14.5%. That's just shy of the worldwide Mac users! macOS + OS X is 15.35% worldwide.