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.

  • dan@upvote.au
    31·
    5 months ago

    not counting systems that use the Linux kernel but aren’t considered a traditional GNU+Linux desktop.

    Does that mean you don’t count Alpine towards Linux market share? It mostly doesn’t use any GNU stuff.

    You can also compile the kernel with LLVM instead of gcc, use musl instead of glibc, and use BSD coreutils instead of GNU coreutils.

    • demonsword@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago
      not counting systems that use the Linux kernel but aren’t considered a traditional GNU+Linux desktop.

      Does that mean you don’t count Alpine towards Linux market share? It mostly doesn’t use any GNU stuff.

      not OP, but my guess is that he was referring to android

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
      1·
      5 months ago

      Do they use the BSD userland instead? Interesting…

      Perhaps the definition isn’t good enough or accurate. What would you call a system that perhaps uses Darwin kernel or Hurd plus GNU user land, or any combo of.

      • dan@upvote.au
        2·
        5 months ago

        Do they use the BSD userland instead? Interesting…

        I think Alpine uses Busybox, but it’s feasible for a Linux distro to use BSD coreutils. Not sure if any do that, though.