According to netmarketshare Linux hit 6.91% market share last month, higher than Mac

Quoting: Alm888Meanwhile, on Steam Linux continues its journey down…

That survey is pretty bonkers, though. I was surveyed twice in my entire Steam life, each time I was on Windows :/
Besides, it shows Windows 10 at -5% and Windows 7 at +5% for Sept. 2017.
That's just nuts, something can't be quite right there ;)

Could it be that the hw survey only includes you if you actually bought something this month? I suspect it could be true because the devs always say their sales are close to what the survey shows. And if you use Linux but didn't buy anything last month you're not interesting to the audience the survey is intended for... Just my guess of course.

I rarely buy more than one game a month these days because that's a plenty of games available and I haven't yet played some interesting titles I already have. At the Steam for Linux launch there were few and people were buying everything they saw, each and every new game + there was a number of huge AAA title releases quite often. Hence 1%+ share.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPBesides, it shows Windows 10 at -5% and Windows 7 at +5% for Sept. 2017.
That's just nuts, something can't be quite right there ;)

Yeah! Damn hipsters! :D

Quoting: GrazenHere's a worthwhile mental check (though admittedly anecdotal). Go to a local coffee shop. Look around. How many people are on Windows? How many on OSX or iOS? How many on Linux? Now, ChromeOS might bump it up a bit if it's counted as a Linux distro, but if Linux has surpassed OSX, the evidence would be all around us.

In a coffee shop, I would use a laptop with the best battery life. If I had a Mac, a Linux and a Windows laptop, I would probably carry the Mac.

Quote. In a coffee shop, I would use a laptop with the best battery life. If I had a Mac, a Linux and a Windows laptop, I would probably carry the Mac.

if you are smart that way and curious about security in a public network where sniffers may be active you would go with Linux.

Enjoy the picture. That will have to be reviewed and will change. The percentages off for the windows versions is as well way off, and I don't see 5 % of Win10 users migrating back to Win7. There wasn't any real issue with Win10 the past month which could have triggered that.

I'm guessing they fucked up either their data or report and have to review it now.

It's funny how people say that in few mouths Google can sell more laptops that there are Linux users in the world :D

Guys (and girls), don't drink too much!
They just count my spider, that's it...

Quoting: Nonjuffo

Quoting: GrazenHere's a worthwhile mental check (though admittedly anecdotal). Go to a local coffee shop. Look around. How many people are on Windows? How many on OSX or iOS? How many on Linux? Now, ChromeOS might bump it up a bit if it's counted as a Linux distro, but if Linux has surpassed OSX, the evidence would be all around us.

I would think that most of the laptops seen in coffee shops are company issued (=Mac/Windows). I find it hard to imagine that someone would lug around home laptops in public places when more portable options for casual use exist. Then again my imagination can be very limited.

I was in a coffee shop yesterday with my son (we have a weekend homework club) and I'd say 90% were OSX, 9.999% Windows me on my Ubuntu Budgie and my son on his Samsung Plus Chromebook.

Quoting: neowiz73china has been wanting to get rid of Microsoft for a number of years now, but of course their are pirated copies of windows going around everywhere there. but now with ChromeOS, Android and various distributions of Linux like Kylin and Deepin (and the untold variations within China, that we don't see open sourced). it's no surprise to see something start to happen with the marketshare.
But it's always good to see things in a positive direction. :)

All of these were there for years! Not for a few months. They all existent years ago.


Last edited by Areso on 2 October 2017 at 2:09 pm UTC