GNU/Linux Share in China Rises to New Highs in 2023

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2023-02-13 04:59:56 UTC
Modified: 2023-02-13 04:59:56 UTC

Date	Windows	OS X	Unknown	GNU/Linux	Other
2018-02	89.33	5.67	4.35	0.63	0.02
2018-03	90.12	6.56	2.8	0.5	0.02
2018-04	90.59	6.57	2.34	0.48	0.01
2018-05	90.06	6.17	3.08	0.67	0.02
2018-06	89.4	6.06	3.57	0.92	0.05
2018-07	88.84	6.51	3.75	0.84	0.06
2018-08	89.55	6.55	3.08	0.77	0.06
2018-09	90.35	6.91	1.98	0.72	0.04
2018-10	90.66	6.37	2.23	0.72	0.02
2018-11	90	6.46	2.67	0.84	0.03
2018-12	88.87	7.22	3.05	0.8	0.06
2019-01	89.14	6.34	3.82	0.69	0.02
2019-02	89.32	5.95	3.98	0.73	0.01
2019-03	88.6	7.62	3.03	0.73	0.02
2019-04	87.86	8.02	3.45	0.66	0.01
2019-05	88.41	7.09	3.85	0.64	0.01
2019-06	86.31	6.95	5.89	0.83	0.02
2019-07	82.55	7	9.43	0.99	0.03
2019-08	88.26	7.7	3.07	0.96	0.01
2019-09	89.43	6.81	2.86	0.91	0
2019-10	88.9	7.14	3.08	0.88	0.01
2019-11	87.89	8.22	2.99	0.89	0.01
2019-12	87.59	8.64	2.96	0.81	0
2020-01	87.71	8.15	3.17	0.96	0.01
2020-02	87.2	8.73	3.27	0.79	0.01
2020-03	88.63	8.24	2.42	0.67	0.03
2020-04	86.67	9.94	2.8	0.6	0
2020-05	87.67	8.2	3.5	0.64	0
2020-06	87.23	8.27	3.81	0.69	0
2020-07	86.03	8.48	4.39	1.09	0
2020-08	86.85	7.29	5	0.85	0
2020-09	87.09	7.46	4.56	0.88	0.01
2020-10	86.67	6.73	5.83	0.77	0.01
2020-11	85.2	5.39	8.52	0.87	0.02
2020-12	87.55	5.44	6.24	0.75	0.01
2021-01	86.06	5.57	7.88	0.48	0
2021-02	84.41	5.33	9.83	0.42	0
2021-03	85.08	5.41	9.04	0.47	0.01
2021-04	85	4.96	9.55	0.48	0.01
2021-05	83.67	4.79	11.12	0.42	0.01
2021-06	81.99	5.2	12.35	0.44	0.02
2021-07	81.78	5.04	12.65	0.52	0
2021-08	84.74	5.63	9.05	0.57	0.01
2021-09	86.01	5.57	7.94	0.47	0
2021-10	86.51	5.37	7.63	0.49	0
2021-11	85.29	5.99	8.15	0.56	0
2021-12	84.5	5.9	9	0.6	0
2022-01	85.65	5.61	8.03	0.7	0
2022-02	85.36	5.67	8.15	0.82	0
2022-03	85.82	5.89	7.6	0.69	0
2022-04	85.58	5.98	7.74	0.69	0.01
2022-05	85.05	6.42	7.86	0.66	0
2022-06	84.55	6.02	8.66	0.76	0
2022-07	79.82	5.87	13.54	0.77	0.01
2022-08	84.51	5.93	8.73	0.83	0
2022-09	85.32	5.91	7.65	1.12	0
2022-10	86.6	6.02	6.7	0.68	0
2022-11	86.96	5.83	6.46	0.74	0
2022-12	86.84	4.88	7.49	0.79	0
2023-01	86.43	4.97	7.45	1.14	0

Summary: In a country with almost 1.5 billion people (or even more in India's case, with ~10% market share for GNU/Linux) each "one percent" in market share can be several millions of users; as of this year, based on new figures from StatCounter, GNU/Linux is detected on 1.14% of laptops/desktops -- the highest on record in China (where historically GNU/Linux adoption was among worst in the world)

“They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”

--Bill Gates about Chinese people

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