Okay, but StatCounter's graph (edit: here) clearly shows that "unknown" is what's cannibalizing most of that – and this is specifically measuring web traffic.

"Lemmy celebrates the rise of bots polluting web traffic stats because they didn't bother to read the article beyond a misleading headline that reaffirms their biases."

Idk why everyone is always looking at statcounter. I still feel like Cloudflare probably has better data.

Well I can't speak for the whole world but by my Windows usage dropped 100% from 2025 to 2026.

Quick add more dogshit unwanted features and spyware to extract the maximum value out of customers over the short term!

"Unknown" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

I hope they never recover.

Incoming rename to Copilot OS.

I'm not surprised. Between privacy concerns, forced features, and Linux becoming easier to use, the barrier to switching is lower than it used to be.

That number seems rather low. I can see that number for overall OS share, including mobile devices, but for desktop I'd expect Windows to be a lot higher.

EDIT: Thinking about it further, if you included mobile devices, then Android would have to be even higher than Windows is here. Either way, these numbers look off.

Even if the numbers are a little off, that's a wonderful sight. Those of us using Linux for decades it feels like the early days of the internet when AOL users came flooding in.

StatCounter lists OS X at 11.89% and macOS at 4.48% for June 2026

What?

I'd take that with a big pinch of salt since the shortfall is "unknown". Probably means they're picking up a fuck ton of bot traffic and there's nobody at the wheel over at StatCounter...

In the chart “unknown “ has an impressive share is it any good?

I will switch to a computer for work with Linux or MacOS. The current situation with Windows is not OK. You need to get your shit together again basically.