According to the USA Gov, Linux usage is at 5.8%
In addition to Pornhub and Steam, the USA government tracks platform usage as well. Plotted here and updated monthly:
https://github.com/CodebergIsBetter/platform-share-usa-gov#platform-share-on-usagov
Useful to have one more platform to check Linux’s growth.
Of the desktop presumably. Of the server and other devices market its a lot more that.
@BrightCandle i would be surprised if there were a significant amount of users visiting the usa government websites through a Linux server
sounds oddly niche :P
I want to believe that, but if it’s coming from the USA Gov, it’s immediately sus.
In addition to Pornhub and Steam, the USA government tracks platform usage as well.
Those are three important things for it to track.
switched 4 years ago from windows to linux. Currently garbage collecting my brain of any windows remnants and happy for it. Running NixOS with an awesome development workspace
Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.
BSD does what it does, and does well at it.
what it does? nobody can tell you, but it’s the best at it.
5% support is enough for public funding from the Federal Elections Commission come next election season.
DAP uses Google Analytics 360 to measure traffic and engagement across thousands of federal government websites and apps, reporting analytics under a single federal-wide shared account. Google Analytics 360 is the paid, enterprise version of Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
- https://digital.gov/guides/dap/
DAP is what the government is using, according to the Github post / page. And it’s important and equally interesting to know what the stats on the Github page exclude to present the data: https://github.com/CodebergIsBetter/platform-share-usa-gov/blob/main/analysis/os_filter.json (I love transparency)
