For instance, a very old version of macOS (Mac OS X, which was only in use until 2016) supposedly gained significant ground recently while the current version of macOS stayed small with a lesser market share. In this case, it appears as if Linux is spreading like wildfire among desktop PCs, a development that’s being celebrated within the Linux community. In other words, Statcounter counts page views, not individual users or actual devices. A doubling in market share within one or two months is simply farfetched, especially when a simpler and more plausible explanation exists: Statcounter’s tracking is being duped by web and AI bots masquerading as Linux traffic. While Cloudflare Radar also shows a spike in Linux usage, that spike all but disappears when you filter for human-only traffic.