I feel like im never early to things, so I’ve been using linux for 2 years it’s probably pretty popular and has been for a while now
I have a better metric, Linus tech tips and other PC channels are all talking about linux this year, many even for gaming, the general PC nerd is hearing and learning about linux and considering it as a real choice, so many are absolutelly fed up with windows BS and are swaping to linux. The supposed big problems of linux about having to tinker it all the time, they are just as likely to happen on windows now, except that on linux is something technichal to fix, on windows its the new update fucking everything up, and you know it will keep happening, because they are continually pushing updates, and you did not choose any or use any of those updates. My PC has been crashing about once a day for the past year for some updates that gave me nothing except more settings to turn off every time. Every PC nerd that was not already on linux has been waiting for an alternative for a long time, maybe work requires windows, maybe gaming requiered windows, maybe other people sharing the PC, but all those things are going away, there is no real reason to keep windows, its becoming a walled garden like apple, except apple has better quality i guess(never had a mac, and hated the iphone), windows is a barbed wire garden, easier to get out but if you are used to it you dont want to touch the spikes. Now a part of the fence is broken and people see that the grass is just as green or greener outside.
What I read is a whole lot of vagueness and assumptions and so n so…
Anecdotal evidence doesn’t count but Ima use this one today: I know a guy.
Not a super tech wizard in the slightest but works with pc’s, recently told me he joined the linux camp with bazzite. I think we here on the fediverse all probably know someone who recently switched through proton/bazzite or mint/ubuntu …
And those might not all stick around, but some will.
As long as MS keeps shooting themselves in the foot and showing their allegiance to drumpelstilskin and company I’d like to think people are going to take notice.
It’s not gonna be that old lady next door but her grandson at some point probably will be coming across linux at some point.
Yeah I’m having conversations with the most broie business school types and finding out they’re running mint. I grew up not knowing anyone who used Linux except maybe at school.
Just shutdown my PS5 for good until it will be moddable, and upgraded my mid-tier PC and switched to Bazzite to use it as a game console. After getting used to the new OS, everythings been flawless so far, I’m happy I’ve made the switch.
Why not try promoting the Linux desktop as a platform that makes it easy to use AI bots?
Aww :(
So is it still 4%?
Sounds like they’re in denial.
Jokes on them. I’m running WSL.
it’s weird (perhaps convenient) that their explanation is “bots” but they don’t mention bot metrics from StatCounter themselves: according to StatCounter numbers, bot traffic share increased 0.37% in July 2026, while Linux Desktop grew 1.92% in the same month.
Ignoring that the default browsers on many distros are seen as bot traffic, filtering the alleged bot traffic on Linux still results in around 7% of overall traffic, up from 4ish a year ago. It also doesn’t explain the giant leaps in downloads on many distros that correlate with the spike. It’s possible some organization set up a ton of computers with openclaw and a wide variety of distros on it I guess to influence opinion 🤷♀️
Also extremely biased source
Various governments in Europe are switching to Linux too. Libraries in Copenhagen now use Linux.
I’m on pro Linux side and still think that trend was pushed by AI scrappers.
Man I’ve seen it used in doctors offices. I think it’s picking up a lot.
Okay, so did they account for the bots that claim to be Windows PCs? (I’ll bet there are still some running around that identify themselves as IE 6, although those may finally no longer be the majority of all bots.)
There are thousands of organizations that rely on Microsoft for their office suite, Outlook, Teams and these companies have thousands of PCs. They can mandate what update will get pushed, restrict admin access, running monitoring tools etc… These are hard to replace.
guys don’t tell them that this also means that windows is poop, since it’s either too bad at scaling or at tech infrastructure to even attract ai developers to the platform 😂
I’m betting that the bots are running in something like ubuntu-node docker images which could’ve been built from any OS.
I’m also willing to bet that the survey was only ever looking at the OS reported in the User-Agent which those scrapers will change frequently.
No offence to the artist but the WSL Tux is ugly af
they deserve the hate
If it were me I’d have gone with
but with penguin instead of cat(Windows get it?)
What a sicko.
Who cares, just fake it till you make it.
