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

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audiojunkie wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 4:21 pm 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%
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So chromebooks and ipads don't count?
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kerfuffle wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:34 pm
audiojunkie wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 4:21 pm 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):
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BertKoor wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 8:26 pm So chromebooks and ipads don't count?
Certainly they count. It is interesting though that they are clustered with "Desktops". :)
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(Also: I'm Accused of lying about Linux—it boots, runs my pro audio workflow, stays stable, updates--though yearly dismissed as “niche”. Yet I'm the deluded one.)
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