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Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years (i.ibb.co)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1250407/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years

Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide - June 2026

Desktop Operating Systems Percentage Market Share
Windows 56.61%
Unknown 21.45%
OS X 11.89%
macOS 4.48%
Linux 4.36%
Chrome OS 1.21%

Source: Statcounter.

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[–] popcar2@programming.dev 21 points 1 day ago

Eh, it sounds like a statistics error. "Unknown" jumped up as soon as Windows went down, and I don't think they lost 15% market share in only one year.