Most Popular Desktop and Laptop Operating System 2003 - 2020

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Desktop and laptop operating system (OS) market share according to W3schools from 2003 to November 2020.

The OS market share of desktops and laptops has drastically changed in this time period. From Windows XP, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 to Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 (Microsoft can't count) in more recent years.

It also shows that Mac OS started as a relatively small OS and has steadily grabbed more market share since. Also interesting is how Linux has retained it's market share over the years.

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To which OS do you have the best memories?

PieChartPirate
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Saw your video on reddit. Super interesting! Thanks for making these charts!/animations!

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Operating systems based on the Linux kernel are now the most popular in the world. Recently, they have pushed the rest of the OS and this trend continues.

From June 2021 to June 2022, the following operating systems were used when surfing the web:

1. Android - 44.17%
2. Windows - 28.96%
3. iOS - 17.46%
4. MacOS - 5.56%
5. Unknown - 1.92%
6. Linux - 0.92%

This statistic includes desktops, tablets, mobile phones and consoles. Android is based on the Linux kernel. Thus, in total, 45.09% of the OS is used when surfing the web on the Linux kernel. iOS and MacOS are Unix-like operating systems. The latter account for 68.11% of the operating systems that are used for Internet surfing.

If you look at the data only for desktop computers, we get the following picture:

1. Windows - 76.31%
2. MacOS - 14.66%
3. Unknown - 4.88%
4. Linux - 2.43%
5. Chrome OS - 1.72%
6. FreeBSD - 0.01%

Chrome OS is based on the Linux kernel. FreeBSD is a free UNIX operating system.

Linux has completely dominated the supercomputing space since 2017, with all 500 of the most powerful supercomputers in the world running a Linux distribution.

According to W3Cook, Linux powers the servers that run 96.5 percent of the world's first million domains (as ranked by Alexa). W3Techs goes even further on this list and claims that Linux powers about 70 percent of the first 10 million Alexa domains. Windows controls the remaining 30 percent.

The public cloud, which is closely related to the aforementioned web servers, is another area in which Linux is well ahead of the pack. Given the fragmented nature of space, it's nearly impossible to get accurate statistics. However, given that Amazon EC2 controls almost half of the market, this is a good sign for the entire sector. In Amazon EC2, standard Linux (along with various distributions) controls 92% of the market. Again, Windows is responsible for the other eight percent.

The share of Linux-solutions in the market of embedded systems has reached 50%. In second place with a share of 24% are embedded systems based on their own internal developments. The share of Windows is 19%.

Linux is popular with various state and municipal structures in Brazil, India, China, Spain, Portugal, France and Germany.

Thus, Linux does not dominate only the PC area. But this situation may change in the near future.

China announced on July 1, 2022, an open platform to accelerate the development of its own operating system for desktop computers due to strained relations with the United States. Kylinsoft, a subsidiary of state-owned China Electronics Corp, joined forces with more than 10 Chinese companies last week, including the National Industrial Information Security Research Center. They are creating an openKylin community where developers will share code related to the Kylin OS. Kylin was originally developed by the People's Liberation Army's National University of Defense Technology. It was licensed for commercial use in 2014. Kylin is based on Linux and is compatible with the largest number of processors, including HiSilicon, Loongson, Sunway, Hygon and FeiTeng Huawei Technologies Co.

China is a pretty big market. And on it, Windows is planning to replace the Linux-based OS. In addition, China may start exporting its OS along with its hardware.

Also, due to the departure of Microsoft in Russia, they will begin to switch from Windows to Russian operating systems. Prior to this, Russian operating systems were most often installed on computers of government agencies, state corporations and network companies.

And with the growing popularity of Linux under it, software will begin to be written more often.

Performance higher than with the Windows 11 operating system (OS) was shown by various Linux distributions of fresh builds, July 8 reports the American news portal about open projects and the world of Linux OS Phoronix. Phoronix conducted a total of 103 different performance tests on a computer with an Intel Core i9-12900K (Alder Lake) processor, an ASUS ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming WiFi motherboard, 32GB (two 16GB modules) of DDR5-6000 RAM, 500 GB WD Black SN850 SSD and AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card. In addition to Windows 11 Pro, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with 5.18 kernel, Intel Clear Linux build 36850 participated in the test. In 53.4% ​​of cases, Clear Linux, optimized specifically for Intel systems, showed the best result, in second place Ubuntu 22.04 - 18.4% of wins in tests and only in third place is Windows 11 Pro - 15.5% of wins.

When working with Windows, there are jambs. For example, on the first day of installing licensed Windows 10, the start button stopped working, the “Settings” section and other interface elements did not start, and on the first day of installing licensed Windows 11, my admin rights changed to normal user rights, due to for which I could not install software, i.e. there was only one user on the computer without admin rights.

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Windows 7 and (unpopular opinion) Windows 10 💙

javimdb
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Windows 7 was incredibly huge for a while!

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I love how the windows just are eating other on the chart

yeetyeet
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Very very unpopular opinion windows 8.1 ngl it's the 2021 xp

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Are you under 30? Or why do your charts always start so late?

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It is quite surprising to see Win XP up until 2015. Also, I don't understand why people still use Win 7, even though Win 10 was launched free. Seems like it is hard to change people's habits.

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Win8 is the worst one. Already it's over in a short time...

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