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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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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.

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

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      3 months ago

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

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