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wirmzom t1_iwzthp5 wrote

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

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Disastrous-Focus1958 OP t1_ix1fyiy wrote

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

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st4n13l t1_ix1i5gl wrote

>The graph looks at desktop users.

iOS and Android aren't desktop OSes

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Disastrous-Focus1958 OP t1_ix1lfeq wrote

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

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ShopObjective t1_ix64nai wrote

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

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Disastrous-Focus1958 OP t1_ix64zt4 wrote

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.

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st4n13l t1_ix3byoq wrote

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.

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Brewe t1_ix13l4p wrote

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

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noslenkwah t1_ix1umov wrote

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

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UsandoFXOS t1_ixx82dr wrote

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...). 😁

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