cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/technology/p/461117/windows-marketshare-since-2010
Windows Marketshare since 2010
for your enjoyment
source https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200910-202511
What is “unknown”? And why is it higher then linux?
If you’re not using “unknown” os, what are you even doing with your life.
My guess is its a catch-all for any OS they couldn’t identify… So some of that could be Windows or Linux with agents or scripts disable. I also didn’t see Android broken out as a separate category while iOS is, so that could be in there too.
AFAIK they’re using the browser agent to identify the os. Maybe that obscures the os in some cases
This is taken from trackers, so blocking trackers renders your os as Unknown.
“Unknown” is browsers blocking trackers from identifying them. So mostly Linux and some people running Firefox with blockers on other systems.
“Windows” is Windows users and also many Linux users who changed their bowser’s user agent to circumvent sites that sabotage browsers on Linux for no reason.
“ChromeOS” is -again- Linux as it’s based on open ChromiumOS which is derived from Gentoo. (And Google is planning to switch to Android soon… which is again running on top of Linux.)
Misconfigured systems/browsers or misconfigured web crawlers.
