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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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[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I switched to librewolf so I will now show up as windows

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I unspoofed Librewolf back to Firefox + Linux. That way I'm not contributing to Chrome and Windows market share and perceived dominance. Plus the more people don't spoof, the less of a need there will be to actually spoof at all as the Linux market share increases.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem is that websites sometimes change there behavior.

[–] Sentient_Modem@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Do you have any examples of this?

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