The Most Popular Desktop Operating Systems

What have been the most popular desktop operating systems throughout history?

Sources: Ars Technica, StatCounter, NetMarketShare, ZDNet, CNET.

[LoganathRaja]

Windows XP is the legend.. So rapid to move up... and stayed in first place so long... Good old memories using it in office along with Gtalk..

[JacksonMarczyk]

Fantastic Video! I had no idea there was documented OS market share back from the late 1970s, that's crazy! I hope you upload an updated one that has 2022 later this year.

[SaudAhmedShaikh]

This is way better than Data Is Beautiful's version! I hope this gets more million views that Data Is Beautiful's does!

[abdullahzain]

3:23 Windows 95 startup sound
4:02 Windows 98 startup sound
4:27 Windows XP startup sound
5:54 Windows 7 startup sound
6:56 Windows 10 startup sound

[HienNguyen-qxzh]

3:23 windows 95 startup sound
4:02 windows 98 startup sound

[luckyea]

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.

Over the past year, the following operating systems have been 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.

[katek]

You have a typo in Linux Foundation, but very nice video! It surprised me that Linux never really had a major share, there was a time every nerd and their mom claimed to use "only operating system that can't be hacked" Linux...

[adityapareek_]

In 2007 windows xp crossed 85%
Legend windows xp ^_^

[TheNickylarson]

I love the music when Windows XP comes

[frozbite]

wo so beutyfull animation and the music is cool

[SerafinPv.]

I use Apple 🍏 and MacOS 🖥,
Nice video Jorge, what’s going to happen when windows 11 be released??

[justinianthegreatandnerd]

shout-out to all the chads using vista still

[plpm_official]

how to nnumber formatting like that video?

[take]

Pretty amazing that there was point, when Linux had a larger market share, than Windows (1993-1995 - not counting DOS ofc)

[staropramen]

Ну это покупки операционок, если сюда добавить пиратов, то семёрка намного выше будет, я думаю

[PatrickvanHalderen]

Strange Mac OS has a market share in 1983, since the first Mac was introduced in 1984

[Leptospirosi]

I think this video only takes data from the USA market: I can't believe OS like the ZX Spectrum and the Olivetti PCOS is not even mentioned in their time frame., unless in market where it was not commercialized.

[rmccombs]

Where is CP/M? It was a very popular operating system in the 70s.

[landoc]

The "Unknowns" come from people browsing the web from game consoles, for the most part. So they should add to the FreeBSD (Playstation) and Windows (XBox) tallies.

Linux rules the Supercomputer, IOT, phone and server markets. Mainframes still have mostly some form of IBM OS (mainly z/OS) but Linux System z is catching up. Tablets, iPadOS has a slight advantage over Android but it's disappearing with more countries entering that market.

So it's only the PC market (desktop/laptop) where Linux is not a contender (or the main one).

[BardiaHameli]

8:13 because it is until 2021
Windows 11 was released in 2022