What is happening to Linux?

I think the first comment in the article hit the nail on the head -- DistroWatch is just becoming less popular.

Though DistroWatch is not a good indicator of this, unfortunately it still seems like Linux is loosing it's popularity. Check out google trends <a href="http://www.google.ca/trends/?q=linux&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.ca/trends/?q=linux&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&...</a>

Even if distrowatch was considered to be an accurate measure of the popularity of specific distributions, it would still be impossible to tell anything from a single visit.<p>I visited distrowatch sometime last week and many of the top 25 distributions were going up in popularity.