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avapa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

74% market share for desktop OS is actually a lot less than I thought. Guess macOS had a solid comeback

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Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

For desktop and laptop computers, Microsoft’s Windows is the most used at 69%, followed by Apple’s macOS at 17%, and Google’s ChromeOS at 3.2% (in the US up to 8.0%), and desktop Linux at 2.9%. In addition, 5% is attributed to “unknown” operating systems - which are likely forms of BSD or obscure varieties of Linux.[4]

From Wikipedia. Not sure when the numbers are from exactly.

Apple has been slowly growing for years. Google took a little with their Chromebooks but they never really took off. Linux continues to grow steadily but is still pretty rare in desktop environments.

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- InfiniWheel@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Just way for the year of the Linux desktop baby!Any second now, any second
  
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- Soundhole@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It looks like Linux could potentially make up 7.9% of total systems? 5% seems awfully high for bsd, so ‘obscure varieties of Linux’ likely makes up the bulk of that 5%, right?
  
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  - Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah if you follow the link to the source freebsd is 0.01%
    
    Linux is 3.1 and unknown is 3.7 so in all likelyhood that’s mostly Linux that they couldn’t identify.
    
    Not sure how the data is collected. Often from useragents on websites I think.
    
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