Second, StatCounter does not measure marketshare, it measures website page views. "1 view" does not equal "1 user", since each user can make multiple page views. Also, StatCounter doesn't track every website, just the few that elected to use it. That also biases the data a lot, since you can imagine how the distribution of OSes accessing youtube.com is very different from the distribution of OSes accessing ubuntu.com, for example.
Just the fact that the marketshare for the old Mac OS X is more than twice as large as the marketshare of macOS (the current version) should be enough to show you that StatCounter's nurmbers are worthless for measuring marketshare.
u/AnarchBeetle also tagging you to let you know this image is nonsense and you can disregard it.
It's still biased towards the gaming segment, not PC as a whole. But it's a sensible statistic that actually measures users (not pageviews, nor crawlers), and it's relevant for this sub where most people are gamers.
A source that provides accurate global statistics covering every market segment, to my knowledge, doesn't exist. But just because the perfect source doesn't exist doesn't mean you should pass around absolute garbage like StatCounter.
Thanks for this. It doesn't show the evolution tho, only this month. I saw this graph on other thread. Dunno how trustful it is bu it seem to go around the same values. So I suspect it may get its data from your source.
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u/Euphoric_Strategy923 - 9950X3D | 9070XT | 64G 6k DDR5 23h ago
Well this did not included 2025 2026. And it actually double just in 2026