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source https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200910-202511
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Hmm… What’s eating Windows’ lunch? Oh “Unknown” and “Other”. Cool.
If they’re basing this off browser user agents like a third of my traffic at least is random Chinese ips and requests with Chinese language in the headers.
All of them would be flagged as unknown by the major user agent parsing libraries.
None of the sure I work with have any Chinese content or content remotely useful for Chinese people, so it’s scrapers.
From the FAQ:
Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device.
So yeah, they’re basing of browser user agents.
Can it be fingerprint spoofers skewing the results? In that case the data is worthless.
Most people don’t fake agent strings but the bots sure do.
The actual thing obscured by this graph is the amount of users. Most people use mobile devices now and companies are incentivized to use apps there instead of actual desk top machines.
That’s probably Linux too
The Year of the Unknown Desktop
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where…
You get the idea
What do we know about
The unknown knowns
The things we don’t know we know?You’ll have to ask Donald Rumsfeld.
Like instinctual stuff you haven’t experienced yet, I guess.
Desktop operating system
iOS
🤔
Technically Cisco devices use “IOS” but i doubt that’s whats shown here.
Isn’t Cisco also moving away from IOS towards web-based GUI-centric administration? I forget what it’s called, but it’s not the same as IOS
it’s probably people using wiis /j
yeah idk either
ipad requests desktop sites and so displays in desktop user agents
I’d count laptops along with desktops. There’s no meaningful difference for most folks. The desktop is dying hard and fast, has been for a decade.
iOS devices aren’t laptops either… At best it’s a locked down tablet with a keyboard.
Shit. I was thinking MacOS. Never mind.
What the hell happened in Jan 2023
That’s what I want to know too! Did Windows blip out of existence in the UK for a month or something?
Everything going down or remain steady except “Unknown”
I don’t care who wins, I care that Windows loses
Unknown could be AI scrapers
Not only, since those stats actually are based on trackers and such, when you use something like uBlock Origin, pihole or anything that blocks trackers they will just list you as “unknown”.
Scrappers are probably under “others”
Let’s see what the Steam Machine will do for Linux on desktop. 2026 will be interesting.
Even if they sell like hot cakes relative to their intended audience of Steam users, it will not make much of a difference in overall market share. Steam might be relatively big with PC gamers, but overall they are rather tiny.
Tiny yes, but IMO getting the attention of computer gamers needs to be the next step if a Linux flavor is going to become a household name.
Even if it’s “SteamOS” that becomes the household name instead of “Linux” that’s still good overall. Maybe it’ll turn into how people used to say they had “Droid” smartphones, not Android.
I mean, if a single distro is what we’re after, isn’t there already ChromeOS?
ChromeOS is pretty far from normal Linux. It’s closer to something like Android. Uses the Linux kernel, but doesn’t bring the freedom, flexibility, or even GUI tool that come with a Linux desktop. SteamOS does come with all of those.
And, importantly, improvements and software for SteamOS is, generally, improvements and software for most Linux distros.
I guess I see your point, but at the same time I don’t.
The unknown is actually a niche OS they put on all the smart dildo and sex toys they make now. True story. ✌️
Unknown could be anything. It could even be windows!
So unknown can we count as Linux+ BSD?
Android.
the graph says desktop operating systems so maybe it is a Linux. no idea why iOS appears in it.
actually it’s probably just some uncategorised version of windows, looking at the matches in dips of windows
Why would it in desktop segment
Same reason as iOS.
Android uses the linux kernel and should be counted under linux if android is not specified
So I assume this is some kind of web traffic graph?
It is, yes
There’s desktop iOS?
iPad + Magic Keyboard. It’s my primary device. Pretty easy when you interact with virtually everything in a browser. Plus it gets ridiculous battery life and mine has cellular connectivity.
I do still have a Windows box for gaming, but I don’t browse the web with it; it just boots into Steam Big Picture mode.
Apple always refers to iPad’s OS as “iPad OS”, not iOS. I wonder if the browsers make the same differentiation in their user agent strings.
