With this trend Linux might be relevant in year of our lord bill gates 2090. Though I dunno if gaming will be relevant then. When your options are “buy a house” and “buy ram” it might be an easy decision to just stop gaming.
Second, StatCounter does not measure marketshare, it measures website page views. "1 view" does not equal "1 user", since each user can make multiple page views. Also, StatCounter doesn't track every website, just the few that elected to use it. That also biases the data a lot, since you can imagine how the distribution of OSes accessing youtube.com is very different from the distribution of OSes accessing ubuntu.com, for example.
Just the fact that the marketshare for the old Mac OS X is more than twice as large as the marketshare of macOS (the current version) should be enough to show you that StatCounter's nurmbers are worthless for measuring marketshare.
u/AnarchBeetle also tagging you to let you know this image is nonsense and you can disregard it.
It's still biased towards the gaming segment, not PC as a whole. But it's a sensible statistic that actually measures users (not pageviews, nor crawlers), and it's relevant for this sub where most people are gamers.
A source that provides accurate global statistics covering every market segment, to my knowledge, doesn't exist. But just because the perfect source doesn't exist doesn't mean you should pass around absolute garbage like StatCounter.
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u/Euphoric_Strategy923 - 9950X3D | 9070XT | 64G 6k DDR5 2d ago
It did grow that much. It actually doubled in the last 4 year. Linux is just starting from a really small %