http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-3p-Browser-Market-Share
According to Net Applications' Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%.
The company is reporting a 3.37% Linux marketshare for August 2017, a rise from 2.53% a month prior and the first time they have reported the Linux desktop marketshare above 3%.
They report Windows meanwhile at 90.7%, macOS at 5.94%, and the other operating systems statistically at zero. Their monthly report can be found here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @08:14AM
Which rock have you been hiding under?
People here are (or the green site) quite unhappy about the browser situation, and discussions about Firefox gets tons of comments.
The difference is that IE got big because Microsoft forced it on Windows users, so we blamed Microsoft. But Chrome has gotten so big because Mozilla is doing everything they can to get rid of Firefox users with every single update, so we blame Mozilla instead.
Many of us preferred Firefox, but have found that it no longer does what they want, and reluctantly switched to Chrome. A few of us are still holding out, worrying when the update that will break the remaining add-ons will be forced upon us (by security holes for those who simply stop updating), and we too will have to give up.