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According to the USA Gov, Linux usage is at 5.8% (fosstodon.org)
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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.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

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)