https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america/#monthly-200901-202607

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP

Cloudflare stats also seem to support peaks of 15% usage but around 9-10% on average. In the United States alone, the market share for Linux is nearly 12% now for the whole month and Cloudflare stats suggest peaks of up to 25% (!) Linux desktop usage on certain days and times.

The trendline suggests this is just the start. When will companies realize they cannot ignore Linux anymore?

    • Kefla [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Probably not significantly? The Steam machine wasn’t very popular afaik, it’s a really bad time to be a company selling prebuilt PCs because pc part prices are insane right now.

      But yes everything Valve does these days is Linux based. Their work on wine/Proton (which they did largely for steam deck support) is probably the biggest factor in people swapping over.

  • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    These are American stats. US is generally more Apple minded.

    Worldwide Windows is at 71%, Apple at 20% and Linux at 8%.

    In Europe Windows is at 74%, Apple at 18% and Linux at 6%

  • Speiser0@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    What I find interesting is that windows traffic collapses at night and during weekends, linux is much more stable.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      They renamed the OS a while ago at this point, but the user agent isn’t always updated.

      Ex on iPhone the user agent is Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7 like Mac OS X)…

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      The OS was renamed at some point; the first versions of the Unix/NEXTstep-based OS made by Apple were named Mac OS X, then at some point they switched to “OS X” (which hardly anyone ever actually said), then at some point to “macOS”. So it’s somewhat silly that they are separate lines and I don’t know what the difference is on that graph.

      • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today
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        2 months ago

        I thought the X was in reference to the roman numeral for 10. Mac OS X == Mac OS 10. They sat on version 10 for a long time and then moved on so it’s no longer X.

        • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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          2 months ago

          Yes, this is true (although the name change happened years before the major version was no longer 10) and doesn’t contradict anything I wrote. But the first version of Mac OS X was an entirely new OS technologically unrelated to Mac OS 9; not the case for later version jumps.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      2 months ago

      Stop using your work computer for non work related things. They are spying on you at worst, or can take it away without any warning or letting you backup files at best.

      • marduk@lemmy.today
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        2 months ago

        Used corpo PCs can be found inexpensively as well, if portability isn’t needed. Craigslist can be a good source depending on your area

      • notthebees@reddthat.com
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        2 months ago

        4000 and 5000 series AMD laptops are around the $300 range for a decently specced model. I have a 5825u laptop and it’s fast and efficient.

    • procapra@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Windows 11 was categorical dogshit at launch, people just seem to accept it when Microsoft shits out garbage.

      There was some good stuff back in the 10 insider previews but by launch 10 was also trash. Genuinely when has windows been good after 7?

      • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The difference is Vista was accidentally shitty. Windows 11 is shitty on purpose to maximize profitability. Destroying their future for short term gains. Like so many companies.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Right? I remember vista, and good god was it bad. In fact, I was finishing college and looking for a job back around when W7 was coming out, and I remember specifically asking the interview what had happened with the quality on Vista compared to XP. Turns out the outsourced ALL of their SQA from Redmond to contractors in India. Nowadays, they don’t even have that excuse - it’s dogshit by design these days.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Windows 12 will just be an AI prompt and nothing else. Everything must be done through Copilot. Want to install and launch a game? Ask Copilot to do it. Want to check your email? Ask Copilot to check your email for you. Want to watch some porn? Get denied by Copilot because Copilot isn’t allowed to do anything NSFW.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    putting osx and macos on separate lines was dumb af. the ‘drop’ of osx over the last ~ 18 months is entirely offset by the debut (and thus, an ‘increase’ from zero) of the name change to macos. it’s a wash there.

    linux gains are almost entirely windows’ loss, but whether it’s a legitimate trend or not will take time to determine.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Weird that Apple has renamed OS X to Mac OS, my first thought opening the link to statcounter was NO WAY 8+% use an OS that was discontinued 25 years ago.

    WTF Apple?

    Opening Wikipedia it says Mac OS was introduced in 2001!?!?!!??
    WTF? That’s the year it was discontinued!!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

    macOS (previously OS X and originally Mac OS X

    Mac OS X succeeded the classic Mac OS, the primary Macintosh operating system from 1984 to 2001.

    For fucks sake! No it’s not “classic Mac OS”, it’s Mac OS. It was never named classic. Just because Apple fucks up doesn’t change the name of the original Mac OS.
    And no OS X did not maintain the same version number for decades. It was introduced as OS X 1.0, 10 is not a version number, it’s part of the name like with OS/2 where the number is also not a version number but is part of the name, and describes something completely different, namely that it was meant as the default OS for IBM PS/2 computers.

    Sorry for the rant, but the stupidity of Apple removing the X from the name and not distinguishing properly between the original Mac OS and the new macOS is just such a piss poor decision IMO.
    For instance Mac OS does not have multitasking! But macOS does.

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It doesn’t say it was named Classic Mac OS. It says “succeeded the classic Mac OS”. That does not imply they named it “classic” anything. The word “the” being present actually explicitly means Apple did not name it “classic”.

      And I’m going to need a source on it being OS X 1.0. I lived through it and my memory as well as everything else says it was 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 etc.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Further down the Wikipedia the most recent rebrand from OS X to macOS was in 2016.

      Still, seems fishy to me that 20% of the market share would be running a 10 year old OS…

    • codenamekino@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I think its intended to line up with the iOS and iPadOS naming scheme. They pooped out an update earlier this year to bring all three OS’s up to the same version number as well.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I have to disagree on side details: OS X did have version numbers starting with 10. I used it between Panther and Yosemite and I can remember Tiger being called version 10.4; it was literally printed on the installation disc.

      Yes, that means “Mac OS X 10.0” had two tens right after one another. Apple aren’t Microsoft silly when it comes to names but they can be silly.

      Also, it wasn’t introduced as OS X. It was “Mac OS X” until 10.7, then “OS X” until 10.11, and “macOS” since then.