According to research company Statcounter, Linux's share reached 4.03% of the global operating system market in February. Statcounter obtains desktop operating system (OS) usage statistics by tracking the code installed on more than 1.5 million websites that generate more than 5 billion page views each month.
The only adjustments the company says it is making to this data are removing bot activity and adjusting previews in Google Chrome, ArsTechnica reports.
In February, Linux's share of the desktop market was higher than ever. If we consider ChromeOS Linux OS, the market share in February was 6.34%. Focusing on Linux numbers alone, the nearly 33-year-old OS's market share has grown by 31.3% since June 2023. In general, compared to five years ago, there has been a big leap. In February 2019, Linux was used on 1.58% of computers worldwide.
Windows' dominance mainly grew between June and February, when Microsoft's operating system was installed on 72.17% of computers. There was a drop from June 2022 to June 2023 (from 76.33% market share to 68.23%), but Windows OS usage now appears to be back to early 2022 levels.
Meanwhile, macOS' share of the desktop market fell from 21.32% in June to 15.42% in February. However, the current market share of Apple OS is similar to that observed in January 2023 (15.33%) and February 2023 (16.26%).
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