Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

[kerfuffle]

Through using your numbers only (which we know is just US numbers):

Android and iOS clearly aren't desktop operating systems, so removing those we get the following percentages:

Windows 67%
Mac 24%
Linux 7%
ChromeOS 2%

[BertKoor]

So chromebooks and ipads don't count?

[audiojunkie]

Through using your numbers only (which we know is just US numbers):

Android and iOS clearly aren't desktop operating systems, so removing those we get the following percentages:

Windows 67%
Mac 24%
Linux 7%
ChromeOS 2%

I'm not counting depreciated OSes or iOS or Android. I'm only counting current OSes:

Windows 11:
MacOS:
Linux + ChromeOS:
Everything else (Old Windows, OSX, iOS, Android, anything else: DOS, Atari, Amiga, etc):

[audiojunkie]

So chromebooks and ipads don't count?

Certainly they count. It is interesting though that they are clustered with "Desktops".

[audiojunkie]

I just saw this, and thought it was interesting and relevant:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FD4e8 ... tid=wwXIfr

[audiojunkie]

This too:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17nQhr ... tid=wwXIfr

[stoopicus]

Was one Linux advocacy thread in this section not enough?

[jamcat]

I'm not counting depreciated OSes or iOS or Android. I'm only counting current OSes:

I’m not counting Windows or Linux. I’m only counting Apple OSes:

iOS: 57.45%
OSX: 30.9%
macOS: 11.65%

[umd]

The only thing that is saving Apple now is the hardware,, as for the software side, if you have a "remove and limit" approach for every major release, it is legit for the marketing department to state that is the "best, fastest, and safest" ever

Linux needs more standardization.

Still easier to keep a Windows machine running on the long term ( as a DAW ).

[audiojunkie]

I'm not counting depreciated OSes or iOS or Android. I'm only counting current OSes:

I’m not counting Windows or Linux. I’m only counting Apple OSes:

iOS: 57.45%
OSX: 30.9%
macOS: 11.65%

This is good. Those percentages are just the percentages of Apple’s numbers, not world adoption numbers. But it still gives useful insights, because it shows the percentage breakdown of OSX vs MacOS—the ratios. In world counts where Apple desktops are grouped as a whole, we can determine the likely OSX to MacOS ratios with your information.

[audiojunkie]

Was one Linux advocacy thread in this section not enough?

It was a new article, thus a new thread. And the discussion has largely changed. We are now not discussing Linux advocacy at all, but rather discussing the problematic and inaccurate way OS adoption statistics are determined, and how to get more accurate numbers. It’s still relevant to the DSP and Plugin Development forum, because accurate numbers are important to developers, so they can know better where to focus their development efforts. No one is forcing you to read or participate in this thread. If you don’t have something useful to contribute, or you don’t like the topic, simply move on.