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Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by kelnos »

prologic wrote: post #30
raincole wrote: post #25

OS X: 21.14% macOS: 8.6% Yeah, if you believe this kind of stats it's on yourself. Also why are you posting a random reddit link? It doesn't even match up the latest stats provided on the official source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

Aren't macOS and OS X the same thing? > Launch: Released in March 2001 as Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah", replacing the classic > Mac OS.Name Change: Shortened to OS X starting with version 10.8 / 10.9 in 2012, and rebranded to macOS in 2016.

I think that's the GP's point. If the people who put this together are too lazy/uninformed/incompetent to combine those two categories into one (because yes, they are the same thing), why would I believe anything about their collection methodology?

Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by kelnos »

wmf wrote: post #11
bigfatkitten wrote: post #7

The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.

The last release of OS X was 11 years ago but this site shows it having over twice as many users as macOS. It's totally implausible.

Regardless, they're the same OS, so any serious (read: competent) person compiling stats like this would combine them into the same bucket.

Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by lukevp »

kibwen wrote: post #27
toplinesoftsys wrote: post #22

Yes, the dam has been broken. Major linux distibutions are getting polished for many decades already and they are totally ready for the mainstream adoption. No amount of marketing will be able to reverse this trend. Considering that Big Tech is spending all their earned money (and even more by borrowing from investors) on AI, nobody will be even trying.

It's obvious that Microsoft doesn't even want to be in the consumer desktop OS market anymore, they'd rather pivot to being pure B2B like IBM did. Likewise, it's obvious that the future of MacOS is continued iOS-ification and infantilization of their OS until it will eventually be useless for anything except developing iOS apps. So neither major player will bother spending a marketing budget to reverse this trend; th…

What have they iOSed about macOS? The latest versions haven’t lost any features as far as I’m aware. But Windows lost the ability to even pin the task bar to the side of the window in Windows 11… and the ability to stop auto updates.

If anything, iOS is getting more Mac-like, especially the iPad version. It has multi windowing and a window manager now.

Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by andsoitis »

kibwen wrote: post #27
toplinesoftsys wrote: post #22

Yes, the dam has been broken. Major linux distibutions are getting polished for many decades already and they are totally ready for the mainstream adoption. No amount of marketing will be able to reverse this trend. Considering that Big Tech is spending all their earned money (and even more by borrowing from investors) on AI, nobody will be even trying.

It's obvious that Microsoft doesn't even want to be in the consumer desktop OS market anymore, they'd rather pivot to being pure B2B like IBM did. Likewise, it's obvious that the future of MacOS is continued iOS-ification and infantilization of their OS until it will eventually be useless for anything except developing iOS apps. So neither major player will bother spending a marketing budget to reverse this trend; th…

> it's obvious that the future of MacOS is continued iOS-ification

What’s an example of a specific iOS-indication in macOS that makes the OS worse?

Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by AndrewDucker »

hparadiz wrote: post #17
benjaminl wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s still really strange that Linux is several times larger than ChromeOS. I would not have guessed this. And I daily drove Linux for years.

In what universe would I jump from a proprietary OS to another proprietary OS without a damn good reason?

One where you don't like the first OS, believe the second OS does what you want, and don't care whether it's proprietary?

Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by vector_spaces »

sublinear wrote: post #28
yoyohello13 wrote: post #26

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And increasingly, reposting crap from Reddit.

I recently googled the phrase "German Jews who voted for NSDAP" after seeing it mentioned in passing

The AI overview contained the construction "Consensus on Reddit is..."

What a time to be alive, I guess

Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by laserbeam »

raincole wrote: post #25

OS X: 21.14% macOS: 8.6% Yeah, if you believe this kind of stats it's on yourself. Also why are you posting a random reddit link? It doesn't even match up the latest stats provided on the official source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

It does match statcounter if you filter for North America.

Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

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Post by eddythompson80 »

kelnos wrote: post #31
prologic wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't macOS and OS X the same thing? > Launch: Released in March 2001 as Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah", replacing the classic > Mac OS.Name Change: Shortened to OS X starting with version 10.8 / 10.9 in 2012, and rebranded to macOS in 2016.

I think that's the GP's point. If the people who put this together are too lazy/uninformed/incompetent to combine those two categories into one (because yes, they are the same thing), why would I believe anything about their collection methodology?

Even if you assume OS X is 1999-2016 and macOS is 2016- then the numbers are still odd.
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