I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don’t even use chrome, i’ve switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

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    Looking online in January they had a 74% share of desktops.

    Linux is certainly dominating in the cloud but that doesn’t really make much difference here.

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      74% market share for desktop OS is actually a lot less than I thought. Guess macOS had a solid comeback

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        For desktop and laptop computers, Microsoft’s Windows is the most used at 69%, followed by Apple’s macOS at 17%, and Google’s ChromeOS at 3.2% (in the US up to 8.0%), and desktop Linux at 2.9%. In addition, 5% is attributed to “unknown” operating systems - which are likely forms of BSD or obscure varieties of Linux.[4]

        From Wikipedia. Not sure when the numbers are from exactly.

        Apple has been slowly growing for years. Google took a little with their Chromebooks but they never really took off. Linux continues to grow steadily but is still pretty rare in desktop environments.

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          Just way for the year of the Linux desktop baby!Any second now, any second

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            Yeah if you follow the link to the source freebsd is 0.01%

            Linux is 3.1 and unknown is 3.7 so in all likelyhood that’s mostly Linux that they couldn’t identify.

            Not sure how the data is collected. Often from useragents on websites I think.

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            It’s hard to find numbers but I did find this:

            According to current data from research firm Gartner, ChromeOS’s market share dropped considerably from 2020 to 2022, with just 6.8% of the worldwide PC market in 2022

            So seem like it has bombed since that article.

            Your article suggest it was a boom due to lockdown. Maybe that’s faded as kids go back to school.

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        it’s also notable that Microsoft has no realistic mobile OS of their own, and a huge amount of what used to be done on a desktop OS is now on mobile. Operating an ecommerce site for instance, 65% of the traffic is from mobile phones, even browser vs apps.