{"id":43511,"date":"2025-11-30T02:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=43511"},"modified":"2025-11-30T02:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T02:51:58","slug":"are-there-more-linux-users-than-we-thinkutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/30\/are-there-more-linux-users-than-we-thinkutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Are There More Linux Users Than We Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-180240147\">\n<div id=\"text-180240147\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#8220;By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market,&#8221; writes ZDNet&#8217;s Steven Vaughan-Nichols:<\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\nIn StatCounter&#8217;s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, &#8220;unknown&#8221; accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS\/2? Unlikely.    In addition, ChromeOS comes in at 3.67%, which strikes me as much too low. Leaving that aside, ChromeOS is a Linux variant. It just uses the Chrome web browser for its interface rather than KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, or another Linux desktop environment. Put all these together, and you get a Linux desktop market share of 11.37%&#8230; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>If you want to look at the broader world of end-user operating systems, including phones and tablets, Linux comes out even better. In the US, where we love our Apple iPhones, Android \u2014 yes, another Linux distro \u2014 boasts 41.71% of the market share, according to StatCounter&#8217;s latest numbers. Globally, however, Android rules with 72.55% of the market.   Yes, that&#8217;s right, if you widen the Linux end-user operating system metric to include PC, tablets, and smartphones, you can make a reasonable argument that Linux, and not Windows, is already the top dog operating system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you add Chrome OS (1.7%) and Android (15.8%), 23.3% of all people accessing the U.S. government&#8217;s websites are Linux users. The Linux kernel&#8217;s user-facing footprint is much larger than the &#8220;desktop Linux&#8221; label suggests.<br \/>\n <br \/>The article lists reasons more people might be switching to Linux, including broader hardware support and &#8220;the increased viability of gaming via Steam and Proton&#8221; \u2014 but also the rise of Digital Sovereignty initiatives.  (One EU group has even created EU OS.&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p>And finally, &#8220;not everyone is thrilled with Windows 11 being turned into an AI-agentic operating system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Linux #Users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market,&#8221; writes ZDNet&#8217;s Steven Vaughan-Nichols: In StatCounter&#8217;s latest US numbers,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43512,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511\/revisions\/43512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}