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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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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 53 points 2 weeks ago

Love that the username is "Codeberg is better".

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of the desktop presumably. Of the server and other devices market its a lot more that.

[–] Logical_Error@fosstodon.org 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@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

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I mean Lynx and Browsh exist for terminal web surfing...but yeah that is niche

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 weeks ago

I want to believe that, but if it's coming from the USA Gov, it's immediately sus.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In addition to Pornhub and Steam, the USA government tracks platform usage as well.

Those are three important things for it to track.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 2 weeks ago

Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

5% support is enough for public funding from the Federal Elections Commission come next election season.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Linux... for president‽

[–] padreug@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Aceofspades@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

BSD does what it does, and does well at it.

what it does? nobody can tell you, but it's the best at it.

[–] 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)