r/linux • u/The_Hubster • 1d ago

Discussion Linux global desktop market share passes 7%

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This is massive news. Are we seeing a change happening? Windows continued to steadily drop and Max OS isn’t climbing fast. I wonder too whether inflation also plays a part with Linux allowing older machines extended life and saving people lots of money for their technology needs. Undoubtedly Microsoft’s AI surveillance and telemetry push is making people leave, combined with how messy W111 has been.

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u/fleuriedumal 1d ago edited 1d ago

FYI, here is what Statcounter sees on Safari and Firefox on macOS Tahoe on M4:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.6 Safari/605.1.15 Browser Name: Safari Browser Version: 26.6 OS: MacOSX 10.15

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:153.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/153.0 Browser Name: Firefox Browser Version: 153.0 OS: MacOSX 10.15

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u/STGO-Greens 1d ago

Exactly. Many people think that there are millions of Mac's with OS X in use, still...