4mo ago

Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%

gs.statcounter.com Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats

This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.

It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

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I switched to librewolf so I will now show up as windows
- After seeing Garuda Linux set my user agent to Windows, I set my Windows install user agent to Linux.
  Seeing Twitch.tv login break after changing my user agent was hilarious
  
  What did it say? Why does it break?
- I unspoofed Librewolf back to Firefox + Linux. That way I'm not contributing to Chrome and Windows market share and perceived dominance. Plus the more people don't spoof, the less of a need there will be to actually spoof at all as the Linux market share increases.
  
  The problem is that websites sometimes change there behavior.
  
  Do you have any examples of this?
- Same, there must be a percent or so of Windows actually being Linux instead.
- Yeah me too, safety in numbers. Maybe if Linux desktop gets bigger than Windows they'll swap it around 👨‍💻

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