Last month, many users of Linux we smile when we read that his market share was going up. And the good thing was not that it had risen a month, but that it had risen in April and had continued to rise in May, June and July. Well, if you were thinking that the time for Linux had arrived, something that has been announced for years, the news this month will lower your enthusiasm a bit.
And it is that in June, the market share of Linux-based systems reached 3.61%, which is not much but it is if we compare it with the 2.10% market share that covered a year before. Also, NetMarketShare does not include Chrome OS on the list of Linux-based systems, preventing it from adding about 0.5% to its market share. But to cut to the chase, the news this month is that the market share of systems using the kernel developed by Linus Torvalds has dropped to 3.57%.
Linux usage drops 0.04% in a month
In any case, we are not talking about a very important drop. In total, we have only down a 0.04%, which is very little. The best way to get an idea of how the trend has gone is to take a look at the previous image: in March, just before the worst moments of the pandemic, the market share stood at 1.36%, reaching its lowest point. high three months later with the mentioned 3.61%.
With all these numbers, what we can assure you is that the story is interesting. What remains to be seen in the coming months is whether, for whatever reason, Linux continues to increase its market share, remains close to 3.5% or, now that people are returning to their jobs, we are back down from 2%.