Best way to gauge worldwide usage percentage of operating system?

4•inatreecrown2•9mo ago

I am interested in finding out how much market share Microsoft, Apple and Linux have, on computers that access the Internet. What is the best source of this data?

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mattl•9mo ago

Couple of questions:

* the internet or just the web?

* Any Windows/macOS/Linux or do you want broken down by versions?

* What about mobile iOS and Android stuff?

inatreecrown2•9mo ago

just the web, not interested in versions. only desktop.

mattl•9mo ago

https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop... is probably a good source of information as Wikimedia has some big sites and Wikipedia is huge.

* Windows -- 70%

* Mac -- 20%

* Linux+Chrome OS -- 7% (or just 5% if you want to exclude Chrome OS)

inatreecrown2•9mo ago

Wow, thank you. That is very helpful!

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