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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Once again, someone misreports the number. It's not 6% of desktop OS market share. It's 6% of all OS market share. There's about 50-50 split between desktop and mobile OSes, which means the correct desktop market share of Linux, according to that site, is 12%.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    source: https://analytics.usa.gov/

    This is the result currently (last 7 days):

     Windows   35.5%
          11   18.5%
          10   16%
           7    0.8%
        2000    0.1%
         8.1  < 0.1%
           8  < 0.1%
     iOS       29.6%
     Android   15.9%
     Macintosh 12.3%
     Linux      5.2%
     Chrome OS  1.4%
     Other    < 0.1%
    

    If we exclude Android and iOS (which make for 29.6 + 15.9 = 45.5%), then the contribution of each of the others would increase (by 100/45.5 = 2.19), leading to 11.388% (5.2 * 2.19).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Linux being in double digits: you love to see it

    Windows 2000 having a larger market share than 8: you also love to see it, lol. I had some fun years where I was mostly using UNIX for school stuff and Win2k for games.

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