Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%

2 years ago by Magnolia_ to c/linux

This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.

It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

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lord_ryvan 84 points 2 years ago

In all seriousness, I think government bodies switching to Linux (UK's, China's, some Indian states') attributes the most to this.

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poki 86 points 2 years ago

Even if that's the case, it's telling of Linux' maturity.

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lord_ryvan 13 points 2 years ago

Oh absolutely!

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GolfNovemberUniform 43 points 2 years ago

No I think it's the Steam Deck. It's like half of all actively used Linux machines.

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leopold 21 points 2 years ago

Source? Last I checked, the Steam Deck was very much in the minority even when narrowed down to just desktop Linux.

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737 15 points 2 years ago
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wischi 10 points 2 years ago

But that's not really a Desktop is it? If we'd count mobile device we'd also have to include Android and then the situation would look completely different.

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istanbullu 8 points 2 years ago

In Steam maybe. But this is StatCounter which is website visits. I doubt many Deck users are browsing the web.

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lord_ryvan 4 points 2 years ago

Oh that is a good point, why didn't I think of that!

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Vincent 17 points 2 years ago

I'm fairly sure it's deficiencies in StatCounter's measurement that's accounting for it. Statistical noise, basically.

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doodledup 23 points 2 years ago

It's probably even higher than that. These stats are mostly based on website visits I believe. And many Linux users are also privacy-minded and might spoof their OS in the browser. I bet a large portion of the Unknown is actually Linux too.

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OsrsNeedsF2P 13 points 2 years ago

China is actually down. India is high but not increasing

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