alt Hacker NewsWindows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years
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I think the events line up...
Windows 11 removing support for older hardware, skyrocketing prices for new Hardware along with bad decisions to make even more money and Apple making ahead of its time tech now forces more and more users to give Linux a try or just buy a Mac. Linux gaming is also nice. Often a pad or phone is enough, I know many non-tech people not owning a single PC any more.
2026: the year of Unknown on the desktop
The cope in this article is strong ... the year of desktop linux indeed.
> Of course, StatCounter’s numbers should be read for what they are: web usage statistics, not a direct count of installed operating systems.
I am unclear how one writes that paragraph after saying the numbers are "global desktop OS usage" over and over again. Not to mention the android share of web usage is 0%.
Yes, it is still tough to compete on the desktop with Microsoft and Apple, but things are moving in a positive direction.
The basics haven't changed. There is still little concern for compatibility with Linux. What exists is an ugly band-aid that covers the problem instead of addressing it.
This "feature" alone just keeps on giving to the less technically inclined.
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are you serious?
Why are macOS and OS X listed separately? Is it to delineate pre-2016 Macs from post-2016 Macs, when the rename to macOS happened? But in that case, I have a hard time believing that there are way more pre-2016 Macs floating around out there than post-2016 ones, as the chart shows. I have a hard time believing that anyone is running pre-2016 OS X versions at all, outside of a very small group of hobbyists; I thought Apple’s data showed that generally Mac users were pretty aggressive about being on relatively current macOS versions.
Also why separate out OS X and macOS at all when it appears that all Windows versions are lumped together and all Linux versions and distros are lumped together?
All of this seems very suspect.