this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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What explains this sudden growth and the sudden decline of Linux in Ukraine?

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[–] odium 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seeing how windows got an equal dip in the same time, I think some version of Windows got erroneously counted as linux. This was fixed in later patches.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it is a percentage, so something has to go down for something else to go up

[–] odium 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

afaik stat counter just tracks hits, it doesn't do any work to check for unique users or anything. So a pile of linux boxes made a higher percentage of hits at whatever site this was counting. Something like a DDOS botnet may potentially cause this.