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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
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Had the japenese not been spooked by the sugestion it waa a threat(which was cleared up as not being one) it totally could have been adopted nationwide, as it was ready to deploy to their schools.
And today we have BSD as the basis of Apples OS.
Microsoft has gone from say 85% market share down to the 60s now I think.
Maybe we will see a day MS loses to Linux since that hit 10% use last month, and has over 15% use in India.
MS certainly is not helping themselves win lately.
Could have? Maybe. Likely would have? No.
You're including Android, server, and embedded numbers for Linux right?
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
I cannot find a source for the 10% claim, highest I found within a minute of searching was ~7%
There are reports from March 2025 that show 2% however I did not see how that number was reached.
On Wikipedia they show 3.9%(rounded) and a giant unknown number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
I'm convinced that it becomes much harder because every operating system has a different name for the user agent.
My speculation is that most data is just pulled from cloudflare. However I got bored at this point and only found macro statistics like Mobile vs Desktop or the browser application used.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage
Pretty cool information though.