That’s a huge increase.

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    Usual question behind this kind of stats: what are the sources? I’m tired of having to believe stuff that appears on the net just by faith.

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          Not only that but looks to be via tracking code used on various sites. I suspect a larger percentage of Linux users will be using ad blockers that likely block that further reducing the numbers.

          The stack overflow survey puts the various Linux distros at about 58.4%* with windows at 59.72% and MacOS at 32.57% for personal use. This both accounts for people using multiple OSs and gives a much more accurate number - at least among developers. Though I do suspect these numbers will be higher for developers than the general population but 3% to 58% is a huge discrepancy.

          The steam hardware survey does put the number at 1.44%, though that is extremely biased towards windows for obvious reasons. And I don’t know of any more accurate ways of counting then these two. But they only show two wieldy different domains.

          * wonder why they broke that out to different distros this year pushing it down the list by splitting it up 🤔 why not also report on the different versions of windows? 😒