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Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What is unknown? Various Unix variants? Custom embedded operating systems ( does that count as desktop?)?

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[–] joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

maybe browsers that obfuscate that information

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[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Me, changing my user agent to "Browser McBrowserFace"

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[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I know this is probably a joke, but don't do that. It gives you a unique fingerprint.

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[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

So I've looked into the yearly stats and macOS stats and the fact that they call it OS X and the macOS version stats only go up to Catalina (the last 10.x, released in 2019) makes me believe most of these are macOS 11+ users.

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Things like Haiku (or BeOS), ReactOS, ArcaOS, AmigaOS etc.

I don't think they do but maybe they're also counting type 1 hypervisors.

Edit: Nevermind, I thought they bundled in "Other" into that category; they didn't, as evident by the chart below the stats which includes "Other".

It's probably just the case of they couldn't determine the OS being used.

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