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

  • @LmaydevEnglish
    6•10 months ago

    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.

    • LEXEnglish
      4•10 months ago

      It looks like Linux could potentially make up 7.9% of total systems? 5% seems awfully high for bsd, so ‘obscure varieties of Linux’ likely makes up the bulk of that 5%, right?

      • @LmaydevEnglish
        3•10 months ago

        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.

      • @LmaydevEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        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.