For those confused as to why “macOS” and “Mac OS X” are listed separately, it’s likely because different browsers list macOS differently. But they both refer to macOS— putting it at 29.74% market share, higher than it’s ever been (it’s usually hovered around 23%-25% in the past)
That means both Linux and macOS growth are coming from users fleeing Windows like the plague.
but mac no good :(
we need more Linux :D
I find it very strange how windows is somewhat more tolerated than macOS on Lemmy, especially considering how windows is unusable shit, and macOS is actually a pretty decent BSD distro— yet, merely mentioning it gets near-universal ire.
Yes, I know that macOS has its downsides, but Windows has a 10,000 times more problems with it, but discussions of it are tolerated
Edit: I wanna thank everybody for taking part in a very insightful discussion. I believe I’ve gotten my answer, or at least gotten much closer to one.
The headline is dramatic but the reality, and the article content, are more equivocal.
For comparison, Statcounter recorded Linux at 5.52% in June 2026, so the share nearly doubled in one month
This seems… optimistic? As the article notes this is really the proportion of HTTP requests made from that operating system, not the actual number of desktops running it. What are the odds this spike is due to some Sparkling Botnet (AI company) doing a scraping run with agents that identify themselves as Linux desktops? I think that or any number of other scenarios are more likely than that the entire increase is truly new organic desktops running Linux.
I think that would certainly add (a lot of) noise to the data, but seeing as there’s still a net drop in windows, it’s still a good month for linux. Sucks that they can only use http requests. :(
Sounds like they figured out most of the previously unspecified traffic, comes from Linux based systems.
But you’re right about an unknown amount of that traffic is from servers.
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I’m personally gonna call it,
2026 is legitimately the year of desktop LinuxMicrosoft’s fucked around with their users to a considerable degree that 10% happened this soon.
Fuck Microslop, Long Live Linux
I don’t think there will a “year” of the Linux desktop. The climb to take over will take more than a year. A “Decade of the Linux Desktop” seems more apt and I think this is it. 2020-2030 will be this change. SteamOS and Proton has bridged the Gaming gap and entry level for average users so well and it’s only going to get better.
Exactly, there was a huge change in attitude and since then every year is a year of the linux desktop
Despite having used it in the past, never ran Linux main. This year will be the first time ever, nervous but exciting. M$ really pushed hard enough that I don’t want to bother with another Windows (started at 3.1).
2026 is my year of the NetBSD laptop
North America, where the smart people live.
Oh right… they don’t.
Sure, Mexico has its problems, but I wouldn’t dare classify a whole country of people as stupid.
And Canada?
Especially Canada.
