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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)
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[-] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago

Once again, someone misreports the number. It's not 6% of desktop OS market share. It's 6% of all OS market share. There's about 50-50 split between desktop and mobile OSes, which means the correct desktop market share of Linux, according to that site, is 12%.

[-] Ferk@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

source: https://analytics.usa.gov/

This is the result currently (last 7 days):

 Windows   35.5%
      11   18.5%
      10   16%
       7    0.8%
    2000    0.1%
     8.1  < 0.1%
       8  < 0.1%
 iOS       29.6%
 Android   15.9%
 Macintosh 12.3%
 Linux      5.2%
 Chrome OS  1.4%
 Other    < 0.1%

If we exclude Android and iOS (which make for 29.6 + 15.9 = 45.5%), then the contribution of each of the others would increase (by 100/45.5 = 2.19), leading to 11.388% (5.2 * 2.19).

[-] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Linux being in double digits: you love to see it

Windows 2000 having a larger market share than 8: you also love to see it, lol. I had some fun years where I was mostly using UNIX for school stuff and Win2k for games.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

thanks for the breakdown. i was going to ask if they were counting android as linux and using other shoddy methodologies, but this looks good to me

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