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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] 43 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Fwiw, my blog's statistics say Linux is around 10% and I know a lot of browsers identify themselves as running on Windows when they're not, so I wonder how it's measured.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's is the main topic of your blog?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago

Travel, nothing tech related

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the venn diagram overlap of linux users, and users of adblockers or noscript users that block such tracking is quite large. Must impact the statistic significantly.

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

I use ad blocker but do not spoof user agent. If uBlpck does not block statcounter, I should be counted.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would wager thats your audiences bias showing up. If you did that measurement in lemmy users, you would get likely 90% Linux users.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

lol no you wouldn’t. I’d be shocked if Lemmy users were greater than 20% Linux.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can tell from the neofetch screenshots of their VMs showing weird configurations like 3 cores and 6 GB RAM with 15 minutes uptime.

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

Weird configs aren’t always a tell, my daily driver is a desktop with a tigerlake mobile engineering sample cpu

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

Are you implying that the host OS in those situations is not Linux?

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

Yes. Probably VirtualBox.

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

We should do a poll, who uses Linux?

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

Seems like you will get a biased sample here...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Why?

(Joking)