Windows just had its worst month on record. StatCounter’s newly published numbers for June 2026 put worldwide desktop market share for Windows at 56.61%, the first time it has ever fallen below 60% in the history of the dataset. Linux closed the same month at 4.36%, its highest number in a year. The r/linux crowd found the chart within hours, and the thread that followed was half celebration, half cross examination.
Here’s what the data actually says, what it probably doesn’t say, and why the comments didn’t believe it for a second.
It doesn’t necessary mean Linux. Given than Windows is going rapidly down and people get fed up with Windows a lot, but can’t or don’t want to switch to Linux, it is also probable that a lot of people go into stealth mode. Lot of YouTubers and media talk about the issues now. Then off course you have those niches grouped together like BSD and other systems, Tor browser and so on. It’s just a curious thing, because that makes a huge chunk of the entire user base.
My curiosity is, consists Unknown a collection of many small groups or is there a huge group responsible?
2026 is the year of the TempleOS desktop.