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source https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200910-202511
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The Year of the Unknown Desktop
Seeing macOS go down, it seems to me, new macOS is masking
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yeah idk either
I’d count laptops along with desktops. There’s no meaningful difference for most folks. The desktop is dying hard and fast, has been for a decade.
The unknown is actually a niche OS they put on all the smart dildo and sex toys they make now. True story. ✌️
And yes, you CAN run Doom on it. But turns out it’s not a great idea
Fun in the dark with an OS you’ve just met. Oh my, how saucy!
Android?
I bet sex toys run on android and have a social network attached, these days…
Everything going down or steady except “Unknown”
I don’t care who wins, I care that Windows loses
I’m colour blind so there’s basically only three colours on this graph but what I’m assuming is showing is that windows is decreasing in popularity and apparently so is OS X. I’m assuming the other colour is Linux or Chrome but no idea which is which.
For future reference, when making graphs make them in black and white first and if they are visually distinct then you can add whatever colours you want.
They’re in order in this highlighted column:
- Windows (at the top)
- OSX
- Unknown
- Linux
- Chrome
- IOS
- Other (dotted)
if you click in the source in der desc of the post, you can hover over the lines. thre it says which line referes to what
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No it isn’t. At the right-most side of the graph “unknown” is higher than OSx, and “other” is above Linux and ChromeOS.
Fair. I’ll delete my comment
Let’s see what the Steam Machine will do for Linux on desktop. 2026 will be interesting.
Even if they sell like hot cakes relative to their intended audience of Steam users, it will not make much of a difference in overall market share. Steam might be relatively big with PC gamers, but overall they are rather tiny.
Tiny yes, but IMO getting the attention of computer gamers needs to be the next step if a Linux flavor is going to become a household name.
Even if it’s “SteamOS” that becomes the household name instead of “Linux” that’s still good overall. Maybe it’ll turn into how people used to say they had “Droid” smartphones, not Android.
A couple of peaks of unknown seem to match very nicely with the windows graph, if you invert it. I think the two big windows crashes we see are measuring differences or re-categorization effects. … or how about brand new or discontinued versions of windows, that were not counted as windows yet?
Yeah it seems like most of unknown is just windows since they spike and shrink together.
Unknown could be anything. It could even be windows!
At this rate it will only be relevant for another 15-20 years.
Interesting. But since when is iOS a desktop operating system?
Since they added free-form window management.
It is barely on the graph at all, and really only in 2012 - I’m assuming they released some product around then that is enough like a desktop computer that it made the list but ultimately fizzled out.
OS X
I don’t use Apple devices and didn’t realize that they didn’t all use the same operating system (OS X vs IOS). Shame on me, I guess.
TIL there’s a new operating system that came out less than a year ago but already captured 5% of the market, passing ChromeOS and Linux
This stat is rubbish because they’re basing it on web views, and the millions of ai scraping bots are influencing it
