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Discussions citing Statcounter data to claim a rapid surge in Linux users in the United States have been making waves. However, taking these figures at face value is premature. In fact, checking the telemetry of sites under my own administration reveals that Non-Browser traffic in Netlify’s Observability has reached 62.5%. Linux user share in the US exceeds 18% (Gigazine, Japanese) Data from Cloudflare Radar exhibits a similar trend. ...

The ZDNET Japan article titled “Linux on Desktop market share exceeds 10% – nearly doubling in one year” has a major flaw. The underlying data for this article has already been called into question by other media outlets. For instance, CNET’s article “Linux traffic spikes in North America: Why?” captures the core issue brilliantly, including its headline—accurately identifying “Linux traffic spikes in North America” as the fundamental cause behind the metric shift. ...