[German]It's September 2025, and Statcounter has released its latest figures on desktop operating system distribution for the end of August 2025. With Windows 10 support ending in October 2025, Windows 11 is really the only option for many users. So what exactly do the market shares for Windows on the desktop look like? And what's about macOS and Linux on the desktop?
Operating system distribution across all platforms
The website statcounter.com has published the market shares of various operating systems (desktop, mobile devices). At the end of August 2025, Android reached 44.44%—a slight increase after a crash. Windows fell to 27.45%, and iOS also declined slightly in user popularity to 15.94%, while OS X remained virtually unchanged at 3.42% and macOS at 1.88%. These could be normal fluctuations in the "measurement."
Operating system market share across all platforms at the end of August 2025, source: statcounter
Operating system share for desktops
For desktop systems, the website statcounter.com lists the market shares of various operating systems as follows: Windows with 69.75% (slight decline), OS X with 8.69%, macOS with 4.79%, and Linux with 3.39%.
(OS Market Share 8.2025)
Not much has changed—only the share of unknown operating systems on desktops has risen slightly.
Windows operating system shares
The list of Windows operating system shares on the desktop paints a strange picture: compared to the previous month, Windows 11 has lost share and Windows 10 has gained. The figures for the previous month are likely to have been incorrect. Windows 11 has a share of 49.02%, while Windows 10 is almost on par with 45.65%.
Windows market share 8.2025
You can now juggle the figures and apply them to North America or Europe. I am amazed that Windows 7 still has a 3.45% share.
Linux is turning 34 these days, as you can read here at neowin.net, for example. On August 25, 1991, 21-year-old Linus Torvalds announced that he was developing a "free operating system," which became today's Linux. I recently came across the article Network scans find Linux is growing on business desktops, laptops, which notes growth in the enterprise sector. However, it is still in the low single digits.
Browser: Chrome is crushing the competition
I found the browser distribution on this Statcounter page interesting. The Google Chrome browser is the undisputed leader with a market share of 69.23%. Apple's Safari browser has a share of 14.98%, while Microsoft's Edge is languishing at 5.03%. Firefox has a meager 2.37% (2.26%).
