This article explores which operating system programmers use - Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX - and examines available statistics on their market share.
Usage share of operating systems - Wikipedia
Desktop/Laptop operating system browsing statistics
- Windows 82.45%
- macOS 12.98%
- Unknown 2.09%
- Linux 1.69%
- Chrome OS 0.78%
These are only statistics related to shipment numbers.
In other words, free downloadable operating systems like Linux are at a disadvantage. If Linux download numbers were added here, it wouldn’t be strange if Linux exceeded 90%. But that’s not the case.
According to The 2018 Stack Overflow developer survey, programmers’ favorite (primarily used) OS is as follows:
- Windows: 49.4%
- MacOS: 27.4%
- Linux: 23.0%
It’s surprising that Linux doesn’t account for the majority. That said, I myself, after using various distributions of Linux centered on Ubuntu for over a year, settled on Windows and am a Windows user. After all, the abundance of information makes problem-solving easier on Windows.