• kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    TIL there’s a new operating system that came out less than a year ago but already captured 5% of the market, passing ChromeOS and Linux

    This stat is rubbish because they’re basing it on web views, and the millions of ai scraping bots are influencing it

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      211·
      4 days ago

      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
        11·
        4 days ago

        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

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      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”.

    • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

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

  • thatradomguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    4 days ago

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

    • Axolotl@feddit.itEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      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”

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      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
        8·
        5 days ago

        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
            5·
            4 days ago

            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.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    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
      10·
      4 days ago

      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.

        • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Well iOS only shows up on the graph right at the end, in 2025. You’ll note that it correlates perfectly with a large drop in MacOS. This must be people using an iOS browser on their Mac, this is possible if you’re mac has Apple silicon. I don’t know why people would do that, but that’s what it looks like.

        • party_planet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          5 days ago

          actually it’s probably just some uncategorised version of windows, looking at the matches in dips of windows

      • Wilzax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        5 days ago

        Android uses the linux kernel and should be counted under linux if android is not specified