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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/
Windows LatestLinux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbersNo, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died, because the entire spike appears to be driven by AI bots. Almost every month, we […]
FireWire400@FireWire400@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

Even if that’s true it doesn’t invalidate the 10% market share, I doubt that all 57% of Windows machines are actual users.

This is where I stopped reading. We’re looking at OS X, which was replaced by macOS in 2016, at 21.14%, while macOS itself sits at 8.6%.

Statcounter says on their market share page for macOS that they can’t really reliably show usage stats for anything past 10.15, due to a bug in Apple WebKit. The actual market share of macOS is very likely much higher.

Granted, Windows 11 is not a perfect OS

You don’t say…

StatCounter Global StatsDesktop macOS Version Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global StatsThis graph shows the market share of desktop macos versions worldwide based on over 3 billion monthly page views.
Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨4⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨08:23⁩⁩en