The open-source favorite has scored record adoption among desktop users, following a just over 5% dip in Windows popularity since December 2024.
Open-source operating system Linux may have lagged behind its better-known competitors like macOS and Windows for decades—but it looks like it may finally be getting its day in the sun.
According to StatCounter’s new market statistics, spotted by TechSpot, Linux now has a 5.38% share of the desktop operating system market, its highest-ever result. But though Linux is holding a bigger slice of the pie than ever before, OSes from tech giants like Apple and Microsoft still control the vast majority of the desktop OS market.