During March, Windows’ market share fell slightly, which benefited Linux according to the NetMarketShare barometer. The following month, although Windows 10 has steadily gained users since Microsoft removed Windows 7, April 2020 saw the operating system lose market share, while competitors Ubuntu and macOS saw their number of users increase. .
It should be noted that NetMarketShare only registers devices that are online and access certain sites.
The trend continued in June 2020, the month in which NetMarketShare’s measurements indicated that Linux had reached its highest market share on desktop: 3.61% market share. We can see from the graph that Linux’s market share has increased since the start of the pandemic.
Several hypotheses are formulated in the face of this observation. For many, the decline in the use of Windows 10 in April 2020 and in the months that followed corresponds to the period of containment of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many companies have closed their offices. And for employees in the workplace, they are no longer systematically required to use the operating system on which they are at the office to carry out their task, since they are, for many of them, on their own laptops and PCs.
According to some, while companies are massively using Windows 10 on their machines, it seems that individuals are becoming more and more interested in macOS and Linux.
On the audience Developpez and IT Pro, the market share of Linux on desktop in June is more important since the operating system benefits from an honorable 7.43% of market share. Windows recorded a market share of 58.72% in June 2020, all operating systems combined (mobile and desktop). In detail, Windows 10 remained the champion with 81.92%, followed by Windows 7 with 13.71% then Windows 8.1 with 3.25%. Windows 8, XP, Vista and NT had less than 1% (0.44, 0.35, 0.29 and 0.01% respectively).
Note that, like on NetMarketShare, the market share of Windows on desktop is more than 80%.
Source : NetMarketShare
On what operating system are you on your personal computer? Is it different from the operating system you use in business? Why did you choose? What do you think can explain why Linux is gaining so much market share? With the gradual containment happening around the world, are there any chances that this growth will have peaked? To what extent?
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