I am a computer science student, interested in data science. This is the first visualization I make and share ;)

Even though MacOS is quite small its still larger than I expected. I would have assumed few people outside the US would be using Macs.

Would be interesting to see this broken out by type of device i.e. smartphone vs PC. Especially since you've broken out macOS and iOS but not done the same for Linux and Windows which both have mobile OS platforms.

For PC and smartphone usage only I assume. If server were included, Linux would have a much bigger part.

Also android is based on Linux too

Desktop OS usage, surely. Supercomputers and servers are dominated by Linux.

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Company desktops are Windows and the private people prefer mobile devices.

The data are for client OS only?

Just rich people looking to be part of the club.

Surely there are many times more personal devices than servers?

There aren't billions of servers, but there are billions of PCs and mobiles.

A few very minor questions:

Why did you choose that order?

What constitutes an instance of an operating system usage? Are Raspberry PIs counted? what about servers? consoles? smart fridges?

I suspect this is not counting the total number of devices (how would you do that?) but counting internet traffic. When you visit a website their server can see what browser and OS you have, so websites can track the proportions of these over time.

The term "market share" is probably not a good one in this case, because that usually refers to what people are paying for. Part of the appeal of Linux (inc Android) is that it's free.

I'm on Linux, so I guess I'm in the 1%, though I have Windows as well. Oh, and three Linux servers and two Android devices.

Linux is obviously the king of servers. The graph looks at desktop users.

>Why did you choose that order?

There is no particular order, it was random.

>What constitutes an instance of an operating system usage? Are Raspberry
PIs counted? what about servers? consoles? smart fridges?

It is constituted by the daily use of the system on the desktop.Devices such as consoles, servers, and other IoT, do not count since most of them are composed of Linux and BSD. (They also do not fit in the desktop category).

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Thanks for the annotation, I forgot to clarify that the measurement is purely for desktop use.

Windows Phone and Ubuntu Touch are dead... 😅

I agree that the term "market" is not quite correct if we become somewhat fundamentalist, however it is a term that attempts to clarify user preference among the different options offered.
Consoles, servers, IoT, and so on don't count. These devices are mostly composed of BSD and Linux, and the chart only focuses on desktop users.

P.S: I am also part of the 1% of Linux ;)

Development may be dead but the OSes are still in use. I assume you're saying the numbers aren't included in the Windows/Linux numbers?

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>The graph looks at desktop users.

iOS and Android aren't desktop OSes

People use tablets and ARM laptops to do desktop work. Office is for Android and iOS, so they are included there.

"Browser users" or "browser traffic" is what it's counting I think.

Another one of their graphs shows this as 40% desktop, 58% mobile, 2% tablet.

This fits with Android and iOS adding up to around 60% and the desktop OSs around 40%.

It depends how you want to count servers. Per physical device? Per VM? Per container? Etc...

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I would love to see this same data for Servers alone. But servers don't browse the internet, so their presence is never captured. I would expect to see Linux with at least 50 to 60% market share. (Ubuntu user)

For Android, it's india china and Brazil

Tablets are tablets, not desktops.

Even if you add them, the graph wouldn’t change much. The number of server is ridiculously small in the grand scheme of things.

What could change it is all the lot devices and all of the « smart things »

Nah, bruh

Even if that were your logic for including them, there's no indication that you excluded smartphones from those totals.

Furthermore, that logic would imply we should include servers in the totals as well but you have said those are excluded because this only looks at desktops. At least be consistent in your logic.

Not to mention IoT as well

You would be surprised

It doesn't paint the whole picture but you could've used Steam stats to gather better desktop data.

96.5% Windows
2.23% Mac
1.28% Linux

Thanks for the suggestion, however Steam only collects information from people who use the platform. Not all desktops are used to play games or have programs associated with their launcher.

Statcounter are focused on web traffic stats... so the most likely thing is that those analytics are considering "only" devices used by people visiting webpages.

So, maybe the title of this chart should mention that... something like "OS of devices used to view web pages".

If this is correct, then it probably there are more users using mobile devices than the counted in this analysis, because a lot of people use the smartphone never to visit web pages, but they only use apps (Facebook, YouTube,. blah blah...). 😁