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> Debian has order of magnitudes less desktops/servers than Windows Source for Debian running orders of magnitude fewer servers than Windows ?

• lostmsu 5y ago
  I doubt this myself, but here you go: https://www.t4.ai/industry/server-operating-system-market-share https://www.t4.ai/industry/server-operating-system-market-sh... TL;DC; 2018: 48% Windows 34% Red Hat 18% rest. Again, servers are probably largely irrelevant for dist upgrade. On desktop the prevalence is clear.
  • blibble 5y ago
    yes, that link is total bunk how many "sales" of Debian are there?
    • lostmsu 5y ago
      This was first relevant result in the search. Can you find better?
• user5994461 5y ago
  My bad, I meant desktops and servers combined. Servers are negligible due to the much larger amount of personal computers (billions). Wikipedia has some stats with sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste... There's about 300 millions Windows devices shipped a year for the past half decade. They must be mostly desktops, unless Windows mobile made a return that eluded everyone :D Funny enough, for servers, both Windows and Linux (all distributions) have 27% market share.