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PayPalTake it with your usual dose of salt and scepticism but when looking over the Linux market share, at least on NetMarketShare it appears to continue rising.
While the latest from the Steam Survey shows a dip during June, the opposite is true here. We reported last month that NetMarketShare was showing a clear upwards trend. The sort of thing you can easily write-off across one or two months but now three months in a row it gives it a bit more credit.
Going from 1.36% in March 2020, up to 2.87% in April, 3.17% in May and now June's figure is in with 3.61%. Looking over past figures from them, this might be the first time we've ever seen it rise three months in a row without a break. This is not counting Chrome OS either, like some other stats end up bundling with Linux. Chrome OS has stayed around ~0.40%, with Ubuntu over this period rising from 0.27% in March to 2.57% in June which is crazy.
Still not clear what's driving this big uptick in Ubuntu users on their statistics and we can speculate until the end of days, still interesting to see though and quite possibly as a result of people working from home during the COVID19 outbreak.
What are your thoughts?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
QuoteStill not clear what's driving this big uptick in Ubuntu users on their statistics…Hmm… WSL2?
Quoting: Alm888This is netMarketShare, I can't believe people would use WSL2 to surf the web when they simply can do it from windows.QuoteStill not clear what's driving this big uptick in Ubuntu users on their statistics…Hmm… WSL2?
personally I think there are three key parts
1) shutdown and furlough of staff.
Since large sections of the world economy has been on shutdown, corporate machines will not be connecting to the internet and thus won't be logged. This will "lower" the number of windows machines being counted.
Where I work, 70% have been furlough'ed and the rest of us have been working from home. I have been going into the office one day a week but from home my work laptop (win10) has been on and equally my linux desktop ... so what gets counted ;)
2) Since january there have been some serious windows mistakes, not just security flaws but systematic changes which would stop things working. This may be enough of a push for people to try linux
3) general adoption is creeping up. Think about the "spread" of linux, it will be a sigmoid like Corona... we are slowly eating into the incumbent
Quoting: SpykerThis is netMarketShare, I can't believe people would use WSL2 to surf the web when they simply can do it from windows.People are learning about Ubuntu through WSL2. :)
Mohandevir Jul 2, 2020
Last edited by Mohandevir on 2 July 2020 at 1:09 pm UTC
Dribbleondo Jul 2, 2020
Quoting: UncleivanFUCK Microsoft
I was expecting more nuance, but hey, I don't kinkshame.
So yeah it's nice to see Linux user uptick, although I think the explanation of people just not logged in to their windows work machines makes a lot of sense. But it might also be a truer indication of what people are using at home, when not forced into the M$ ecosystem at work.
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