| Desktop/Laptop operating system browsing statistics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
|
81.76% | ||
| macOS |
|
13.49% | ||
| Unknown |
|
1.99% | ||
| Linux |
|
1.68% | ||
| Chrome OS |
|
1.08% | ||
| Desktop OS market share according to StatCounter for September 2018.[73] Chrome OS is also based on the Linux kernel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems | ||||
| Category | Source | Date | Linux | Unix and Unix-like (not incl. Linux) | Windows | In-house | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop, laptop | Net Applications[234] | September 2018 | 2.21% (excl. Chrome OS) plus 0.29% ChromeOS | 9.52% (macOS) | 87.56% (all versions) | 0.37% | ||
| Smartphone, tablet | StatCounter Global Stats[235] | September 2018 | 73.19% (Android) | 24.26% (iOS) | 0.36% | 2.19% | ||
| Server (web) | W3Techs[236] | Apr 2017 | 66.6–37% (of the known-for-sure lower bound of Linux share: Ubuntu 35.8%, Debian 31.9%, CentOS 20.6%, Red Hat (RHEL) 3.3%, Gentoo 2.7%, Fedora 0.9%) | c. 1% (BSD; Unix-like could be up to 30.18%, then "Unknown" needs to be known to be not Linux) 66.6% Unix-like share is mostly Linux; the "Unknown" part, there-of 43.1%, is assumed to be also Linux (for upper bound of that column), could be some non-Linux or e.g. any of the named Linux distributions in the Linux column. |
33.5% (Windows Server 2016, W2K12, W2K8) | |||
| Supercomputer | TOP500 | Nov 2017 | 100% (Custom) | |||||
| Mainframe | Gartner[228] | Dec 2008 | 28% (SLES, RHEL) | 72% (z/OS) UNIX System Services | ||||
| Video game consoles | VGChartz[237] | Jan 2018 | 35.04% (PS4, PS3, Vita, PSP) | 16.63% (Xbox One, Xbox 360) | 48.32% (Switch, Wii U, Wii, 3DS, DS) | |||
| Embedded | UBM Electronics[238] | Mar 2012 | 29.44% (Android plus other non-Android Linux) | 4.29% (QNX) | 11.65% (WCE 7) | 13.5% ("Inhouse/custom" is most popular, single choice) | 41.1% | - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Market_share_by_category |