Statcounter does not say that. This post is straight up misinformation.

• Firefox (all platforms): 2.74%

• Linux (all platforms): 1.61%

• Firefox (desktop): 6.64%

• Linux (desktop): 4.45%

Firefox has 50-70% more users than Linux.

Right now statcounter shows:

Firefox: 2.74% Linux: 1.61%

Browsers are mostly identified by user-agent, or not? If so it isn't surprising because people like to fake that. In the least to shut down such silly messages like "please use chrome/edge"

I'd believe it. I've had hundreds of Linux servers that don't have any desktop Gui at all deployed on them.

Linux desktop users make up an absolutely tiny fraction of Linux installs.

In which country? For me the global stats and my country's (NL) stats show otherwise.

I never trust stat counters of any kind with linux. I often see stuff like that plastered on my whitelist firewall, like bumper insects on a high speed summer drive through Florida. There is usually some other stat of leet users. That's Linux too. Then there are those times when I change my browser agent just for fun.

On a random note, I once talked about Firefox with a friend, and he texted me a few weeks later about trying it. More successful than my Linux spreading, although part of it was he used a Surface and having gone through the pain on my Surface Go myself, I wasn’t sure I could impart that suffering to someone else.