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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2026
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You're including Android, server, and embedded numbers for Linux right?
No Desktop only. There were articles about the 10% recently. India has been 15% for a while. Steam Deck and SteamOS seems to have given a boost to Linux adoption in the last 2-3 years
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
I cannot find a source for the 10% claim, highest I found within a minute of searching was ~7%
There are reports from March 2025 that show 2% however I did not see how that number was reached.
On Wikipedia they show 3.9%(rounded) and a giant unknown number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
I'm convinced that it becomes much harder because every operating system has a different name for the user agent.
My speculation is that most data is just pulled from cloudflare. However I got bored at this point and only found macro statistics like Mobile vs Desktop or the browser application used.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage
Pretty cool information though.