If'n the devs ever decide to support another OS in addition to Windows the percentage of MacOS desktop/laptop would more than likely be the 2nd OS. 15.93% as of Sept 2021.
*nix at 2.35% wouldn't be a very efficient of resources to have a *nix version.
One thing to keep in mind is that those numbers aren't taking into account who's dual-booting Linux or running Windows in a VM.
While I fully stand by the fact that Linux is going to be growing heavily in the near future, that is merely a cool bonus. I'm not asking for Linux support just because. This isn't about marketshare and who's got the bigger dick. This is about stability and supporting an open and secure platform. And if we're gonna pick another OS to port AnyDVD to, sorry, but I don't think it's the best idea to port it to yet ANOTHER locked down platform that's even more restrictive than Windows in some ways and treats gamers like second-class citizens on top of everything else. Sometimes worse than. (Admittedly though, that second part is not too relevant to this discussion.) Not to mention all the recent privacy violations of Apple. Perhaps back in the day, I would have agreed OSX wouldn't be a bad decision, but as things stand now, there needs to be a rally behind an operating system that doesn't treat its users like children who need to be told what to do.
After all, aren't we all here because of our affinity for disobedience?
One more thing about marketshare. Every time someone asks for a Linux port of anything, it's almost always greeted by this same answer of lack of marketshare. Well, people don't want to use Linux because programs aren't compatible with it, but programs aren't compatible with it because not a lot of people use Linux! This cycle needs to stop. Everyone pays lip service to how great Linux is, but when it comes time to invest and put in the hours and money, everyone quickly disappears. Please... Let's not be like that.
That comes up basically every single release of Windows.
I actually get what you're saying, but Windows has been on an objective and marked decline. Ever since 2010, it's been slowwllyyy regressing, marked with the first release of Windows 8 for all the tablets people didn't want to use, to Windows 10 with its forced and buggy-as-hell updates and now, quite bloated performance and slight compatibility issues, to Windows 11 with this stupid obsession with cramming TPM down everyone's throats plus some other fun stuff that may or may not ship with the OS as well. We'll see about that. Compare all this crap to Windows 7? XP? Hell, let's go with Vista. Supposedly one of the worst OSes Microsoft ever released, but Vista was only bad due to lazy OEMs not putting out drivers, not quite polished OS performance, and some annoying security precautions. All of which were fixed and remedied. 10 though these days makes Vista look like a sterling success.
And hey, I'm not asking the devs to give up support for Windows anyway. Just that they investigate alternatives to keep the software on secure footing.