It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

  • not counting systems that use the Linux kernel but aren’t considered a traditional GNU+Linux desktop.

    Does that mean you don’t count Alpine towards Linux market share? It mostly doesn’t use any GNU stuff.

    You can also compile the kernel with LLVM instead of gcc, use musl instead of glibc, and use BSD coreutils instead of GNU coreutils.

      • Do they use the BSD userland instead? Interesting…

        I think Alpine uses Busybox, but it’s feasible for a Linux distro to use BSD coreutils. Not sure if any do that, though.