The figure is awesome but is also highly uncertain and out of sync with the published Linux market share from other organizations like StatCounter and Wikimedia.
Interestingly, if this value is in any way accurate, it would mean that Linux market share has not only rather much doubled in the space of 30 days but has passed macOS in the process!
This stat is unpromising to be accurate
These figures are from one association based on a small sample size and, as we’ve discussed many times before, are out of sync with other analytics reporting companies.
The stats obtained and presented by analytics companies are always open to argument, debate and potential errors.
NetMarketShare gathers its data based on visits to a tiny individual of just 40,000 websites globally.
While the organization does exclude Android/Linux from its desktop rankings they do combine ChromeOS/Linux with GNU/Linux, starting some to attribute the rise in Linux market share to Google’s Chrome OS.
Netmarketshare also stresses that the graph displaying Linux’s big leap is based on “preview data that has NOT been evaluated by Quality Assurance”. That method looks for, among other things, “major difficult statistical variations”.
That said the rise does happen a period of sustained growth for Linux desktops this year as controlled by this firm. Last month’s stats exceed the previous peak Linux market share reported by the corporation which put Linux usage at 3.37% for August 2017.
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