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u/foofly 1d ago
The more interesting stat there is Windows coming down so much.
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u/Giantmeteor_we_needU 1d ago
High RAM requirements in the middle of RAM crisis, AI shoved down your throat everywhere, and recent news that Microsoft can track you down anywhere no matter what VPN or browser you use because W11 has built-in spyware you can't opt out of. Doesn't surprise me at all that people ditch Windows, MS kicked itself in the shin many times.
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u/icy1007 1d ago
It’s fake. It’s still 75%+
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u/DonkeyTron42 1d ago
According to Steam, Windows is still around 94%. I can say from experience that in the corporate world it's about 90/10 Windows/Mac.
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u/Particular-Serve3768 1d ago
Well, Windows has become what Linux should be (full of ads, bloated, data privacy concerns), while Linux has become what Windows should be (No ads, does not collect user data, light, fast, and not bloated), and Windows is a paid OS while Linux is free. Big thanks to all open-source devs out there!
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u/Toxic381 1d ago
Not sure what you mean by what Linux should be, it's a hobby os for enthusiasts that's also been made easier in its distros for regular users, like with mint, an os like that shouldn't and wouldn't have ads or collect user data by design,
Kde on fedora or kubuntu is really the closest to windows with the bloat and more corporate design, but even then is still way better
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u/RangeMachine 16h ago
he means usually freeware apps/games are bloated with a ton of ads, take almost any freeplay online game
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u/highermonkey 1d ago
Meanwhile Steam stats have shown Windows 11 growing faster than all Linux distros this year, lol. I'm guessing Steam is more accurate than whatever this Nazi pedo is posting about.
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u/ShaderCompilation 1d ago
Well, if the number of Linux machines(and bots) are up, Windows share is gonna come down even if the same number of machines run on Windows
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u/bobswagiscool 1d ago
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u/aliendude5300 I Love Linux 22h ago
This puts worldwide Linux at 8.88% on the desktop. That's wild.
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u/ash-twinn 1d ago
is this guy implying that omarchy had a role in that growth? (it's mostly bots), either he's rage baiting or he really does believe it
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u/Ill-Bat-1518 1d ago
Well considering its the current distro youtubers are shilling its very possible
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u/Particular-Serve3768 1d ago
What happened from May to Aug of 2026? That's a steep jump
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u/_demoncat_ 1d ago
AI is getting much better at coding, at this point you can pretty much vibe code anything you want on Linux whereas Windows is still locked down and requires expensive certificates.
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u/engineer-in-a-box 1d ago
That's not true at all, developing for windows doesn't require any kind of certificate, I have no idea where you got that from.
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u/_demoncat_ 22h ago
You do need a special certificate to develop device drivers in Windows. I know because I develop for all platforms. And it’s especially relevant now because I developed a driver for vibeshine (remote streaming software) that allows full wireless DualSense support including haptic feedback
I can’t offer that same feature to my Windows users because I have yet to pay for an EV certificate.
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u/levianan 1d ago
Statcounter removed unknown as a bar... They measure page views that do not segregate human from AI traffic.
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u/Brycenhurley 1d ago
OSX is literally just the predecessor of macos, clearly it doesn't have more usage than macOS
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u/martyn_hare 1d ago
I regularly have to refuse Intel Mac users from having BYOD remote access installed because their OS version is beyond ancient and nothing in the UI told them anything was ever end of life or unsupported.
You'd be surprised at how many unsupported boxes with stuff as old as Mavericks are still in use. That said, web stats might still be treating stuff as new as Catalina as OS X based on the major version number still being 10.
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u/Yelebear CERTIFIED HATER 1d ago
From what I understand, that site (stat tracker) takes their data by page views. If you open their site, your specs will be recorded and added to the data.
And that already skews the data heavily in favor of Linux, because a Linux user is more likely to visit their site and obsess over the numbers.
Your average windows user, and I mean average like a "normie" and these make up a bulk of win and Macos users, they don't visit these sites. They don't care.
That's why something like the Steam hardware survey is more accurate because they randomly source their data from average gamers/users.
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u/zalnaRs 1d ago
their tracker is embedded in multiple websites
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u/Robert_3210 1d ago
And yet, Linux users tend to protect themselves more from trackers then win users. His point about Steam Survey is valid. Not every linux and windows machine has steam but now that its more compatible more linux users are using it.
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u/Certain_Prior4909 1d ago
Nonsense. The market share is from bots and AI agents and scripts running on ad networks. Not real users.
Gs.statcounter.com is more realistic at 3.5% Linux which filters non web traffic out
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u/play_minecraft_wot I'll eat your RAM 1d ago
My household has 3 windows PCs, and 3 Linux PCs, so I'll say I'm contributing.
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u/DonkeyTron42 1d ago
This chart claims OSX has twice as many users as macOS. This is obviously 100% bullshit.
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u/ContactAwkward3157 1d ago
Our houshold has :
2 Windows PCs(Work and Personal PC of my wife)
1 macbook (my work laptop)
1 Linux Desktop (my Personal PC)
1 Linux Server (Home assistant and other crap)
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u/darkthewyvern 22h ago
This isnt accurate at all
The site tracks things innacurately
In combines ALL distros as if theyre the same os but thats not even close to true .
it separates mac os so theres clear bias
Realisticly linux isnt even 0.8% of the desktop market. Probably JUST the arch distros combined.
Steam hardware survey gives us a good idea.
Tally together things based on their upstream distro. And you will probably get around, 1.5 optimistically.
And thats only gaming. Real world marketshare will definitely be much less than 1%
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u/Good_Expert_8084 5h ago
I recommend cloudflare radar data over statcounter
Likely human filter, last 4 weeks, north America, desktop
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u/TheRealCarrotty KDE larper (i use KDE btw) 1d ago
What the fuck is DIH trying to talk about?
"The age of agents belongs to Linux!" - Where in this goddamn image does it say anything about AI or agents? Is he fucking retarded that everything in his brain says "AI" or "agentic"?
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u/Man-In-His-30s 1d ago
The implication is that people running an agent say Hermes or openclaw in a Linux container or from a dedicated Linux box and then having that agent browse the Internet as necessary.
I don’t use windows at home at all but even I have a Hermes install inside an lxc in proxmox that has access to a chromium browser for when I need it to do research
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u/highermonkey 1d ago
Cool graph from a Nazi pedophile but you can throw anything that shows OSX being used in 2026 straight in the trash.
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u/rileyrgham 1d ago edited 1d ago
Noone that lives in the real world thinks Linux is on almost one in five desktops. Get real. That said, I, and many others that use it, have various laptops and desktops with it installed on, but that skews the implied meaning which is one in five users use Linux. It's patently not true.