Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
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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.

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    52·
    2 days ago

    I am still hoping it will hit 10% market share within my life time.

    Do we really want that?

    We have it pretty good right now. I would actually say we’re living in a golden age of desktop Linux: there’s constant innovation, good support, you get to do pretty much everything you need, while flying under the radar.

    Linux has won the majority of the industry (servers, mobile etc.) so it’s not like it has anything left to prove.

    If it starts getting noticeable on the desktop I fear we’re just gonna get negative attention. Users who take and not contribute, because Windows had taught them to be entitled. Unwanted attention from Microsoft, who I bet are not going to be doing nice things once they start getting paranoid about it.

    I really don’t think that large companies like Adobe will care about Linux even at 10% and even if they did, they are a super toxic company nowadays, the least we get to interact with them the better.

    • mrvictory1@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      There are many games & software with no Linux support, not to mention AC blocked games. Increased marketshare could change a thing or two, at least.

    • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Do we really want that?

      As long as competition and choice continues to be the mantra of the Linux desktop, then yes, I’d love to see more and more people using it.

      We have it pretty good right now. I would actually say we’re living in a golden age of desktop Linux: there’s constant innovation, good support, you get to do pretty much everything you need, while flying under the radar.

      Very true.

      Unwanted attention from Microsoft, who I bet are not going to be doing nice things once they start getting paranoid about it.

      I mean, Ballmer called Linux a cancer pretty early on, so that ship sailed a long time ago.

      I really don’t think that large companies like Adobe will care about Linux

      Once they start losing large sums of money due to people switching and finding viable alternatives, they certainly will care. Right now Adobe has one main thing going for them – apathy and muscle memory of the aging demographic of their users. That will eventually change.

      the least we get to interact with them the better.

      Absolutely. I used to be an Adobe fan, back when Kevin Lynch was a part of it, and I was a Flex developer. Then Jobs wrote his thing about Flash, and a year later, not a month after Jobs’s death, Adobe dumps Flex – and literally overnight my position changed from Flex to HTML5 and Java.