• ryper@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    I don’t think something that lists 21% as “Unknown” should be taken seriously.

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      15 hours ago

      With such high number of unknowns, I don’t think we can trust the stats.

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    17 hours ago

    Eh, it sounds like a statistics error. “Unknown” jumped up as soon as Windows went down, and I don’t think they lost 15% market share in only one year.

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    14 hours ago

    Since this is based on web analytics, I suspect most of the ‘Uknown’ traffic is AI bots and other scanners, so I’m not sure how that really affects the data.

    I guess technically they are generally linux based, but not a desktop OS.

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    16 hours ago

    1/5th of the entire survey is unknown. That’s an awful lot of grey area to be making such a claim. We have no idea how many of those are using windows.

    I’d be more inclined to trust the Steam hardware survey over this.

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    17 hours ago

    Statcounter, huh. I’m guessing “unknown” means Windows 11 but they haven’t updated their software to recognise it yet.

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    17 hours ago

    The fact that the macOS usage is still only half as much as OS X after ~6 years is pretty incredible to me, especially since Intel macs have still been supported until the end of this release cycle

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    17 hours ago

    My wife has been eyeing a new laptop and sick of the constant copilot Microsoft garbage, looked at the entry level MacBooks for the first time.

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      16 hours ago

      I mean… There’s gnome. It’s awful. But still better than Mac. :)