Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
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This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.

It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

  • wischi@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    But that’s not really a Desktop is it? If we’d count mobile device we’d also have to include Android and then the situation would look completely different.

    • Bulletdust@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      Connect the Steam Deck to a compatible dock and you can quite easily use it as a desktop. At the end of the day, it’s still an x64 based PC that’s just handheld.

      • wischi@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        I could install a full fat kde on the entertainment system of a car - still wouldn’t call it a desktop PC.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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      4 days ago

      Steam Deck is a desktop. It is exactly the same PC hardware and software you are using on your desktop PC. It runs the same games and is software compatible. Steam Deck is a desktop PC.

      Android has a different hardware (not x86 compatible), is focused on phones, its eco system of software is not compatible with PC and in reverse does not run your PC software. Android based smartphones are not a PC.

      • wischi@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        So your definition for “desktop” is if it’s an x86 compatible architecture? Seems pretty random to me. Btw, there are x86 android device. IMO a desktop is something on the top of a desk to do typical “office work”. PCs, Macs, Laptops, etc. but calling a SteamDeck game console “Desktop” is pretty dishonest I think.

        • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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          8 hours ago

          PC in the first place means x86 architecture. Desktop is the operating system, here a Linux desktop or Windows OS. Nothing random here. Steam Deck is a Desktop PC with form factor of a handheld. Just like any other Laptop is a Desktop PC in a notebook form factor. It runs, plays and uses the exact same hard and software as a Desktop PC. Calling Steam Deck PC not to be a Desktop is pretty dishonest. Also saying desktop PC must be on a desk for typical office work is random too.

          Also this is all about stats. Don’t forget, this is not your opinion or my opinion. I am speaking from the stats perspective, as the Firefox browser (or any other browser) is just a Desktop PC from the perspective of the stats.

          If you say I am pretty random and being dishonest, then first, you are discounting others opinions, secondly did not even understand the purpose of my reply. Maybe you should watch out your language next time before responding if you want further discussion. I hope my reply here made it crystal clear.

          • wischi@programming.dev
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            1 hour ago

            The names are pretty clear and are about form factor. Desktop is something on top of a desk. Laptop is something on top of your lap. Hand-held is something you hold in your hand.

            The steam deck is a hand-held game console - doesn’t matter what OS is it uses. It’s true that most stat tracking sites count it as “desktop” but not because it’s a desktop computer but because the user agent looks similar to desktop user agents.

            If I install Android on a tower PC it doesn’t randomly become a smartphone even though all browser trackers would register it as a smartphone.

            And Valve using a “typical desktop OS” on their handheld console doesn’t magically turn it into a desktop PC.

            • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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              59 minutes ago

              The example with Android makes no sense as a argument in our discussion.

              The steam deck is a hand-held game console - doesn’t matter what OS is it uses

              Wrong. It does matter. Plus, it matters what software and what configuration it uses the moment it gets counted in the stats.

              The discussion is not about what you try to tell. You can say what you want, it does not matter that the Steam Deck uses hardware that is PC and software that is a hybrid of Desktop and Gaming operating system. And when going to the web with a web browser, then the Steam Deck is in Desktop mode, and therefore seen as a Desktop PC. Not only act it like that, the functionality is a Desktop PC.

              The Steam Deck has two modes if you forgot that, and we are talking about the Desktop PC mode. Which is what the stats are all about.

      • flux@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        But how many use it for browsing, which I imagine this data is from?