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Operating System Market Share Worldwide Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
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Posted on 02/07/2025 4:51:49 AM PST by daniel1212

Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide- January 2025
Win10 60.37% Win11 36.6% Win7 2.24% Win8.1 0.3% WinXP 0.27% Win8 0.16%

Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide - January 2025
Windows 71.91% OS X 15.02% Unknown 7.43% Linux 3.71% Chrome OS 1.92% FreeBSD 0%

Tablet Operating System Market Share Worldwide - January 2025
iOS 52.85% Android 46.99% Linux 0.11% Unknown 0.03% Windows 0.01% BlackBerry OS 0.01%

Mobile Operating System Market Share Worldwide - January 2025
Android 72.24% iOS 27.28% Samsung 0.31% Unknown 0.1% KaiOS 0.03% Windows 0.01%

[All platforms] - January 2025 Android [based on modified Linux kernel] 46.18% Windows 25.46% iOS 18.1% OS X 5.32% Unknown 2.69% Linux 1.32%

[more: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/]


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies; Society
KEYWORDS: apple; linux; software; windows
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1 posted on 02/07/2025 4:51:49 AM PST by daniel1212
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To: dayglored; ShadowAce; Openurmind

ping


2 posted on 02/07/2025 4:54:17 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; raybbr; AFreeBird; ...

3 posted on 02/07/2025 5:00:38 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: daniel1212
HEY!

What about Windows 3.0? Where's our piece?

4 posted on 02/07/2025 5:01:10 AM PST by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: daniel1212

Desktop Linux % is lower than I thought it would be.


5 posted on 02/07/2025 5:01:27 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: daniel1212
Related: Microsoft CEO regrets giving up on Windows Phone


6 posted on 02/07/2025 5:03:30 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212
Unknown 7.43% Linux 3.71%

Unknown? Probably some obscure Linux or gaming system

7 posted on 02/07/2025 5:04:24 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Pollard

I was thinking the same.
I’m going to bet that a large portion of that Unknown is Linux related


8 posted on 02/07/2025 5:16:16 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: daniel1212

9 posted on 02/07/2025 5:21:07 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Nervous Tick
Desktop Linux % is lower than I thought it would be.

It need not be, neither should MS engage in its anti-customization trend. Prhaps a Musk could develop a more user-friendly supported version of Linux, and with positive aspects of customized Windows enabling cross over. However, most people just go with the flow, and have little thought as to desire for greater efficiency via customization, which both Windows and Linux can use (easier with the former), and as the predominance of inferior Chrome attests.

10 posted on 02/07/2025 5:25:32 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212
Why do so many people ignore the number one warning?

11 posted on 02/07/2025 5:39:32 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Nervous Tick

“Desktop Linux % is lower than I thought it would be.”

Because it is absolutely NOT accurate. Take all the “unknown” and add them to the Linux numbers, because there isn’t much else to choose from except a Linux flavor for those “unknown” numbers.

It is a hit piece and not at all honest about the true number of Linux users out there.


12 posted on 02/07/2025 5:45:18 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Pollard

“Unknown? Probably some obscure Linux or gaming system”

Nope, it is a hit piece. The “unknown” is Linux too. So in the minimum for accurate numbers those need to be added together.


13 posted on 02/07/2025 5:48:57 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: z3n

“I was thinking the same.
I’m going to bet that a large portion of that Unknown is Linux related.”

Absolutely. They somehow skewed this to misrepresent the numbers. Those low numbers for Linux are what they were 15 years ago not now.


14 posted on 02/07/2025 5:51:23 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: daniel1212

Unknown operating system got me thinking.

My first “online” computer was Microsoft’s Web TV.

Hooked it up to dial-up.

I remember navigating Free Republic on Web TV.

Not sure what the operating system was, some variation of windows I guess.


15 posted on 02/07/2025 6:04:26 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: traditional2

I’m still partial to IBM’s Disk Monitor II for the 1130.


16 posted on 02/07/2025 6:10:31 AM PST by GingisK
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To: daniel1212; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ...
Operating System Share (Except Servers) ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to daniel1212 for the ping!

17 posted on 02/07/2025 6:10:55 AM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: ShadowAce; daniel1212
And once again, a "worldwide market survey" totally ignores and thus fails to include the fact that
Essentially the entire Internet and most corporate engineering/R&D runs on Linux Servers
and if they were so bold as to include a category of "Servers", things would look very different.

IMO, not including servers is like taking a "Worldwide" market survey Automobiles and only including, say, those manufactured in America.

Don't mind me, I'm cranky. My basement sump pump clogged last night and flooded the basement. Put me in a bad mood to start the day....

18 posted on 02/07/2025 6:18:26 AM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored

Sorry about your sump pump! That is a terrible thing to have happen and it always happens at night!


19 posted on 02/07/2025 6:21:53 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: daniel1212; z3n; Nervous Tick; Pollard

Here is the deal... They can’t even claim to know how many Linux desktops are actually out there. And here is why. There is a record of EVERY MS and OS X install out there. This is NOT true with Linux. Because all they can do is track “downloads”. Downloads are not an accurate indicator because a Linux user can distribute that one same download onto 20 computers if they like. Between myself, family and friends I have distributed one download to 20 computers at a least.

And I am just one user with one download. Every Linux user does the exact same thing. So for these stats counters to claim they know is misrepresentation. The purposely exclude this very real unknown distribution factor.


20 posted on 02/07/2025 6:22:37 AM PST by Openurmind
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