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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Infinitus@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those have to be old. Last I saw chromeOS had overtaken MacOS a few years ago due to Google’s huge push to give chromebooks to schools during the pandemic for remote learning. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56116573

Unless chromeOS just cratered.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

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