Linux has increased its share of the worldwide desktop operating system market by almost half a percent in a single month, going from 4.05% in June to 4.45% in July. StatCounter is the source of these figures.
This can to be seen as a substantial jump, given that in the period from June 2023 to June 2024, it had only put on just less than one percent.
In my last report on Linux’s increasing share of the desktop operating system market Is Linux On The Rise?, I speculated that its increase in popularity might be to do with the slow uptake of Windows 11 due to its hardware requirements. While Windows share had dropped to 68.15% in June 2023, it has now bounced back to 72.79% and this appears to be to the detriment of OS X which having been 21.38% in June 2023 is now 14.92%, a reduction of almost a third. Notice the sharp upturn in Windows’ share between November and December and the corresponding downturn for OS X.
