The headline is dramatic but the reality, and the article content, are more equivocal.

For comparison, Statcounter recorded Linux at 5.52% in June 2026, so the share nearly doubled in one month

This seems... optimistic? As the article notes this is really the proportion of HTTP requests made from that operating system, not the actual number of desktops running it. What are the odds this spike is due to some Sparkling Botnet (AI company) doing a scraping run with agents that identify themselves as Linux desktops? I think that or any number of other scenarios are more likely than that the entire increase is truly new organic desktops running Linux.