freebsd get 0.01% pc market
PC market
windows 72.52%
Mac OS 14.68%
linux 4.05%
chrome OS 2.27%
freebsd 0.01%
2024-03
i guess freebsd have half million pc users .
there are 8000000000 people living in earth.
so, 0.01% is half million users.
Remember that not every single human being own a computer, neither able to use anotherâs, so the numbers should be lower.
Itâs like the food chain: the higher, the fewer.
What about people that have multiple computers, and multiple OS installs? Do they get counted many times? Do embedded devices count? Each playstation runs FreeBSD.
I presume the techniques used by the researchers (probably browser reporting) would not be able to determine the percentage running Plan9, Amiga derived OS, and most important to us, Haiku? It would be fun to see the chart at a scale that compares niche OS.
Modern ones run linux.
But they wonât count playstations towards âpc market shareâ in any case.
Iâm impressed with Linux. I thought it was on one percent. Four percent is good.
I am not sure which modern ones you are referring to, but both the PS4 and PS5 run Orbis OS, which continues to be based on FreeBSD (version 11 apparently).
If itâs based on browser usage, itâs probably clouded by spoofing. My Linux box uses the Brave browser which claims to be Chrome.
Brave is basically Chrome.
Just like WebPositive basically is Safari?
AFAIK, Brave uses the same rendering engine and the same renderer as Chrome, whereas WebPositive uses the same engine, but a different renderer (BeAPI-based). That is how Epiphany, despite using the same engine, works better than WebPositive for YouTube, etc.
Compatibility-wise, Brave and Chrome are the same.
Now youâre splitting hairs. Iâm pretty sure WebPositive spoofs Safari though.
We have âWebPositiveâ and âHaikuâ in the user agent. But we also have MacOS and Safari. And Chrome. And Mozilla. And KHTML. And Gecko. Well, this is how user agents work everywhere else, so it doesnât count as spoofing.
However accurate this survey is (or any survey for that matter), the fact is we are dwarfed by the worst operating system ever, even though in this case they say it takes over âonlyâ 72.52% of the market. I expected more than that, given the unethical pushing to use a spyware pretending to be a (buggy) âoperating systemâ.
However, being dwarfed by a crappy OS is not necessarily a bad thing. Imagine if Haiku or BSDs were very popular⌠They would probably have to adapt accordingly by âstreamliningâ everything, and adopting the âwe hate programmersâ mentality.
Brave basically is Chrome under-the-hood.
That is OBVIOUSLY Haiku. 