• Unleaded8163@fedia.io
    3 months

    Hmm… What’s eating Windows’ lunch? Oh “Unknown” and “Other”. Cool.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      If they’re basing this off browser user agents like a third of my traffic at least is random Chinese ips and requests with Chinese language in the headers.

      All of them would be flagged as unknown by the major user agent parsing libraries.

      None of the sure I work with have any Chinese content or content remotely useful for Chinese people, so it’s scrapers.

      • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
        3 months

        From the FAQ:

        Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device.

        So yeah, they’re basing of browser user agents.

      • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
        3 months

        Most people don’t fake agent strings but the bots sure do.

        The actual thing obscured by this graph is the amount of users. Most people use mobile devices now and companies are incentivized to use apps there instead of actual desk top machines.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I think it’s pretty clear from this graph that the macOS is eating their lunch, and to a lesser extent, Linux.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 months

      Hmm… What’s eating Windows’ lunch? Oh “Unknown” and “Other”. Cool.

      If the data is coming from statcounter, it’s kind of vague where they’re pulling it.

      It’s strange to see IOS and not Android, maybe because it’s fractured into so many sources

      It could also be anti ad/tracker stuff.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3 months

      As we know,
      There are known knowns.
      There are things we know we know.
      We also know
      There are known unknowns
      That is to say
      We know there are some things
      We do not know.
      But there are also unknown unknowns,
      The ones we don’t know
      We don’t know.

      • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
        3 months

        The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where…

        You get the idea

        • herrvogel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3 months

          You know exactly how Greek fire was made. You just don’t know that you know the exact recipe for the ultimate naval weapon. Yes, you in particular. Tell us.

  • DelnitaCrane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Everything going down or steady except “Unknown”

    I don’t care who wins, I care that Windows loses

    • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3 months

      That’s what I want to know too! Did Windows blip out of existence in the UK for a month or something?

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      the shape of the gap is almost the same as the peak in “other”. So that peak is probably “windows but we messed up with data collection” or “some browser in windows changed its user agent”.

  • darthinvidious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    The unknown is actually a niche OS they put on all the smart dildo and sex toys they make now. True story. ✌️

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      Teledildonics has been a promising technology for several years.

    • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3 months

      Android?

      I bet sex toys run on android and have a social network attached, these days…

    • Axolotl@feddit.itEnglish
      3 months

      Not only, since those stats actually are based on trackers and such, when you use something like uBlock Origin, pihole or anything that blocks trackers they will just list you as “unknown”.

      Scrappers are probably under “others”

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    3 months

    I’m colour blind so there’s basically only three colours on this graph but what I’m assuming is showing is that windows is decreasing in popularity and apparently so is OS X. I’m assuming the other colour is Linux or Chrome but no idea which is which.

    For future reference, when making graphs make them in black and white first and if they are visually distinct then you can add whatever colours you want.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      Unknown could be anything.

      Thats not a bad thing.

      I’m a big fan of preventing marketers from gaining additional useful knowledge about me.

      Sometimes that means anonymizing, sometimes it means actively polluting their data.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3 months

      Even if they sell like hot cakes relative to their intended audience of Steam users, it will not make much of a difference in overall market share. Steam might be relatively big with PC gamers, but overall they are rather tiny.

      • walden@wetshav.ingEnglish
        3 months

        Tiny yes, but IMO getting the attention of computer gamers needs to be the next step if a Linux flavor is going to become a household name.

        Even if it’s “SteamOS” that becomes the household name instead of “Linux” that’s still good overall. Maybe it’ll turn into how people used to say they had “Droid” smartphones, not Android.

          • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
            3 months

            ChromeOS is pretty far from normal Linux. It’s closer to something like Android. Uses the Linux kernel, but doesn’t bring the freedom, flexibility, or even GUI tool that come with a Linux desktop. SteamOS does come with all of those.

            And, importantly, improvements and software for SteamOS is, generally, improvements and software for most Linux distros.

          • walden@wetshav.ingEnglish
            3 months

            I guess I see your point, but at the same time I don’t.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      Between that and windows 11 forcing people to choose between buying new hardware (at currently inflated RAM prices) , remain on win10 without updates oo switching to a different OS, it really could mean the fabled “year of the Linux desktop” has finally arrived.

  • klay1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    A couple of peaks of unknown seem to match very nicely with the windows graph, if you invert it. I think the two big windows crashes we see are measuring differences or re-categorization effects. … or how about brand new or discontinued versions of windows, that were not counted as windows yet?

    • Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 months

      Yeah it seems like most of unknown is just windows since they spike and shrink together.

  • Chaser@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 months

    Interesting. But since when is iOS a desktop operating system?

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 months

      It is barely on the graph at all, and really only in 2012 - I’m assuming they released some product around then that is enough like a desktop computer that it made the list but ultimately fizzled out.

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
    3 months

    OS X

    I don’t use Apple devices and didn’t realize that they didn’t all use the same operating system (OS X vs IOS). Shame on me, I guess.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      3 months

      It’s not even called OS X anymore, now it’s called macOS.

      iOS is actually based on macOS, although it’s slimmed down a lot. iOS has been further split into iOS and iPadOS, although they’re pretty much the same thing. It’s just a marketing move.