▲ 340 ▼ Linux Desktop Market share reaches 3.08% (gs.statcounter.com) submitted 3 years ago by fugepe@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments That's a huge increase.
[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 18 points 3 years ago (1 child) I think it's browser user agents. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Which have been wildly unuseful for over a decade permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nous@programming.dev 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child) Not only that but looks to be via tracking code used on various sites. I suspect a larger percentage of Linux users will be using ad blockers that likely block that further reducing the numbers. The stack overflow survey puts the various Linux distros at about 58.4%* with windows at 59.72% and MacOS at 32.57% for personal use. This both accounts for people using multiple OSs and gives a much more accurate number - at least among developers. Though I do suspect these numbers will be higher for developers than the general population but 3% to 58% is a huge discrepancy. The steam hardware survey does put the number at 1.44%, though that is extremely biased towards windows for obvious reasons. And I don't know of any more accurate ways of counting then these two. But they only show two wieldy different domains. * wonder why they broke that out to different distros this year pushing it down the list by splitting it up 🤔 why not also report on the different versions of windows? 😒 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] rasensprenger@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Which have been wildly unuseful for over a decade permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nous@programming.dev 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child) Not only that but looks to be via tracking code used on various sites. I suspect a larger percentage of Linux users will be using ad blockers that likely block that further reducing the numbers. The stack overflow survey puts the various Linux distros at about 58.4%* with windows at 59.72% and MacOS at 32.57% for personal use. This both accounts for people using multiple OSs and gives a much more accurate number - at least among developers. Though I do suspect these numbers will be higher for developers than the general population but 3% to 58% is a huge discrepancy. The steam hardware survey does put the number at 1.44%, though that is extremely biased towards windows for obvious reasons. And I don't know of any more accurate ways of counting then these two. But they only show two wieldy different domains. * wonder why they broke that out to different distros this year pushing it down the list by splitting it up 🤔 why not also report on the different versions of windows? 😒 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] rasensprenger@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nous@programming.dev 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child) Not only that but looks to be via tracking code used on various sites. I suspect a larger percentage of Linux users will be using ad blockers that likely block that further reducing the numbers. The stack overflow survey puts the various Linux distros at about 58.4%* with windows at 59.72% and MacOS at 32.57% for personal use. This both accounts for people using multiple OSs and gives a much more accurate number - at least among developers. Though I do suspect these numbers will be higher for developers than the general population but 3% to 58% is a huge discrepancy. The steam hardware survey does put the number at 1.44%, though that is extremely biased towards windows for obvious reasons. And I don't know of any more accurate ways of counting then these two. But they only show two wieldy different domains. * wonder why they broke that out to different distros this year pushing it down the list by splitting it up 🤔 why not also report on the different versions of windows? 😒 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] rasensprenger@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent