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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73% (gs.statcounter.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I switched to librewolf so I will now show up as windows

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

What did it say? Why does it break?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that websites sometimes change there behavior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Do you have any examples of this?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Same, there must be a percent or so of Windows actually being Linux instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah me too, safety in numbers. Maybe if Linux desktop gets bigger than Windows they'll swap it around 👨‍💻