Native desktop development has changed since the dominance of Windows in the early days of personal computing. According to Statcounter, Windows still holds a comfortable 76% market share on individual desktop operating systems, the other 24% is split between operating systems such as macOS at 17%, and Linux variants holding the remaining 7%. Developers can miss one in four potential users by targeting their applications to be Windows-only. Even riskier when targeting macOS or Linux only.
Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Operating System Market Share
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