Meanwhile, desktop Linux has a 20% market share here in Norway! ๐ณ๐ด
@midtsveen Switching to Linux on my main machine next week. Been using it on my secondary laptop for 2-3 years now, and it's been great.
Seems that they even got VR working really well now.
@midtsveen โฆ and Germany
ah, never mind ๐ฉ
Microsoftโs user raping does a lot I guess ๐๐
Why would they count MacOS and OS X separately, though? That's odd. They're the same OS, just a minor name change between versioning schemes (OS X: newversion=oldversion+0.1 -> MacOS: newversion=oldversion+1)
They did, but it's not a new OS, and shouldn't be counted separately. That's just weird. And I'm not even a Mac guy or anything. It'd be like counting Windows 10 and 11 separately.
I can't know the motivation of the person who made the chart, but one possible motivation would be to try to discount the Mac's market share.
I don't know that, though. And honestly, it's not a huge deal to me. I just thought it was a bit odd. ;)
I mean, yeah, that's a big shift, but it doesn't make it altogether a different operating system.
I'd say the only shift that qualifies for that in the Macintosh world was Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X.
In comparison, the shift to Big Sur is more like Tiger to Leopard.
@davbram @midtsveen A market share is not always an indication of sales. It's also an indication of market competitiveness, i.e. how well a product is doing compared with other products of the same category.
Linux distributions are free but still compete with other computer operating systems.
@Sar Their FAQ says they use browser fingerprinting stats scraped from billions of Web sites. I wouldn't consider this accurate either.
For example, I've been a Linux desktop user for over 20 years but Statcounter would tally me as a Windows user because that's what my browser's user-agent says. I don't think it's uncommon for Linux users to spoof their user-agent header because there a lot of sites that block "unsupported" browsers.
@midtsveen strange, particularly as Sweden and Denmark are not that different from the global average. Whatโs different about Norway?
(But youโve also always been on the forefront of EVs as wellโฆ)
Meanwhile, in Canada, it's 2.6%
I'm really curious as to who these people are who use Linux, because all the ones I know are from the fediverse, and we're not exactly representative of the average joe.
Maybe the linux users are overrepresented because they delete cookies more, and thus they seem like an entire new person, while Windows users are more basic and don't delete their tracks
But then I also checked Sweden and they somehow have just 2.59% market share. I don't understand why Norway would have nearly ten times more?
Could this be explained by VPNs operating from Norway, maybe? We re-route traffic from other countries?
I truly wish that number was representative of reality! But I quite doubt it.
Linux desktop users: techies and academics. Ordinary people without a tech or academic background are totally absent from Linux use as far as I have experienced.
Not that Linux comes up often in discussion though
@val_int1 @ElBeeToots @amici @midtsveen I mean it depends how picky the categoriser is, if it's purely UA based it may not recognise whatever UA gets sent as non-desktop (if the UA even specifies that), or if it's using JS to inspect things like screen size, well a TV will pass a โgreater than 12 inchesโ-type check just fine.
I know full well it says โDesktopโ, the question is โwhat does that mean?โ.
@midtsveen Switching to Linux on my main machine next week. Been using it on my secondary laptop for 2-3 years now, and it's been great.
Seems that they even got VR working really well now.
No clue, they even mention macOS separately
Could my eyes be witnessing this?
This is incredible. This is:
THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE DESKTOP*
* on 20% of Norway desktops**
** some desktops are actually laptops
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