There are a lot of other stats around, like statcounter, cloudflare, wikimedia, and even the data pornhub publishes from time to time. All of them show linux growing, and they all have different audiences and maybe methodologies
The article acknowledges the difficulty in gathering data, and moreover for their desktop numbers they reference StatCounter which itself only counts web-based usage on a subset of pages which are part of their network.
Do you mean steam stats? I don’t know of many others, and those are going to be enthusiasts of one form or another.
There are a lot of other stats around, like statcounter, cloudflare, wikimedia, and even the data pornhub publishes from time to time. All of them show linux growing, and they all have different audiences and maybe methodologies
Yep thats the main one I’ve seen posted around. I’m sure their data is accurate but I’m not convinced it’s representative of the wider consumer market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics
I wasn’t questioning STEM.
Op mentioned consumer OS market share stats, and the only ones I know of are from Steam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
The article acknowledges the difficulty in gathering data, and moreover for their desktop numbers they reference StatCounter which itself only counts web-based usage on a subset of pages which are part of their network.
Ah that’s my mistake