Comment by newsoftheday

5 days ago

Most charts I've seen indicate Linux already passed 5% usage worldwide.

Not quite: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

  • PSA: Statcounter data is garbage, please stop referring to them.

    This data is based on their own tracking solution customers, which is only about 0.3-0.6% of all websites (none of the big ones) and therefore highly self-selected.

    Note that "unknown" is basically the inverse curve to Windows and has risen from 6 to 16% within the last year. In India, "unknown" has 55% market share. They don't give any explanation for this absolute failure of analytics, which is telling me that they really don't care at all.

    There's no way to know within this context what "unknown" really is, but what I can tell you for sure is that any statistic based on this kind of data is absolutely useless.

  • I can’t distinguish the colors of the Linux and MacOs colors on that chart.

    • You can turn individual lines on and off on the chart by clicking on the legend.