Microsoft sees this trend as well, hence this “K2” announcement.

Trending well my ass. It went down .8% in overall count from last survey’s 5.3%. The silver lining is that the .8% loss does not add up in the top distro list, which means last month’s jump was either a counting glitch (more likely) or the distro that had that huge drop does not show in the top distro list. I doubt a single distro could be responsible for such a huge drop, so that means last month the linux percentage should’ve been around 4.5 and it registered a plateau/slight growth overall.