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11.37%. Now we're talking. (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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In StatCounter's latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, "unknown" accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely.

In addition, ChromeOS comes in at 3.67%, which strikes me as much too low. Leaving that aside, ChromeOS is a Linux variant. It just uses the Chrome web browser for its interface rather than KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, or another Linux desktop environment. Put all these together, and you get a Linux desktop market share of 11.37%. Now we're talking.

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[–] 15 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Chromeos shouldnt count as a linux distro.

Its basicly windows lite.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It runs Gentoo and can also.run Linux apps through its debian sandbox. It's unfortunately linux

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Chromeos is a gentoo fork?

    Dang i never would have thought that

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    exactly it is different

    i know that it's gentoo under the hood but that's a technicality that isn't worth considering

    it's a light weight machine designed for cloud use not native apps

    by that logic they should also count all the android users in addition to routers and smart toasters as well

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