Linux had a market share of just over three percent in June, according to Statcounter’s measurements. It is the first time that the operating system has achieved such a high adoption rate in that analysis tool and it is the highest share that Linux has ever achieved.
Statcounter counted in June of this year a market share of 3.08 percent for desktop Linux use. That’s the highest market share since at least early 2009, when Statcounter started collecting statistics. At that time, Linux still had a market share of 0.64 percent. Exactly five years ago, in June 2018, Linux had a share of 1.64 percent. The share had risen to 2.42 percent at the beginning of 2023.
Statcounter’s figures do not distinguish between different distros. This also makes it difficult to say whether these are distros for desktop or for server PCs.
Chrome OS also achieved record market share. That OS was measured last month at 4.13 percent. That is the highest share ever and also the first time that Chrome OS has exceeded four percent in the Statcounter statistics.
The figures mainly show that Windows still dominates as an operating system. It had a market share of 68.23 percent in June. MacOS is making progress; it had a market share of 21.32 percent in June, compared to 14.61 percent at the beginning of this year. FreeBSD and “unknown operating systems” together accounted for 3.24 market share, but FreeBSD is only 0.01 percent of desktops measured.
2023-07-13 10:49:43
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