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.

  • wischi@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    But that’s not really a Desktop is it? If we’d count mobile device we’d also have to include Android and then the situation would look completely different.

    • Bulletdust@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Connect the Steam Deck to a compatible dock and you can quite easily use it as a desktop. At the end of the day, it’s still an x64 based PC that’s just handheld.

      • wischi@programming.dev
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        10 months ago

        I could install a full fat kde on the entertainment system of a car - still wouldn’t call it a desktop PC.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      Steam Deck is a desktop. It is exactly the same PC hardware and software you are using on your desktop PC. It runs the same games and is software compatible. Steam Deck is a desktop PC.

      Android has a different hardware (not x86 compatible), is focused on phones, its eco system of software is not compatible with PC and in reverse does not run your PC software. Android based smartphones are not a PC.

      • wischi@programming.dev
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        10 months ago

        So your definition for “desktop” is if it’s an x86 compatible architecture? Seems pretty random to me. Btw, there are x86 android device. IMO a desktop is something on the top of a desk to do typical “office work”. PCs, Macs, Laptops, etc. but calling a SteamDeck game console “Desktop” is pretty dishonest I think.

      • flux@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        But how many use it for browsing, which I imagine this data is from?