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im not american. i heard about this website and was curious if other Nations also have such a Statistic.

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry, but I'm more curious at the Windows 2000 with 1%, which is more than win 7 and 8?! XP isn't even listed, so I am pretty confused by that stat.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if it's got something to do with some sort of old, out-of-date software that only runs on 2000.

[–] Sproutling@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some lab and manufacturing equipment are still stuck on incredibly old versions of Windows. However, the thought of those machines still touching the Internet to the point where it can be counted by these statistics is honestly terrifying.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Absolutely. Honestly it might be safe simply because people have stopped writing malware for it

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

Fun fact: I have visited a US state prison whose systems were running windows vista and 98

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

The US goverment also uses a lot of IPv6 since there was a mandated transition that came from.the department of defense.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Ashburn at 4.8% tells me this includes data center traffic, as not many people live there but a shit ton of data centers do.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

Those Firefox figures are abysmal. Argh.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most servers use Linux so it should be at least at 30%. That stats are very weird or I'm really not understanding how they work.

[–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago

It seems to specifically be looking at users who have gone on US government websites. Its not measuring all devices in the country.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even if it were 26% it would be somewhat irrelevant. Ordinary people do not use desktop computers any more. To repeat (because in this community there's a lot of stubborn resistance to this fact): ordinary people do not use desktop computers any more.

To be clear, I do, and you do. But we are a small and shrinking minority.

[–] Goten@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do use PCs. Just not 100% of the time, but its 70% phone or tablet and 30% Laptop/Tower.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are confusing middle-class Americans with everyone else in the world.

[–] Goten@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most Worldpeople never even had a PC or even a Phone, so they dont count in this statistic.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I googled up this article that says about three quarters of the world uses smartphones. (Citation)

Unless, for some reason, you're referring to dead people. Which seems like a weird addition.

Edit: I tried finding computer usage, but all it gave me was overall internet usage. I'm gonna blame my dependence on google for that one, though.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure why this is getting down voted. The stats are pretty clear and come from multiple sources. Android is dominating everything.