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byevorster ( 2664141 ) writes:
These stats are collected by checking the OS through the browser.
Quite a few browsers out there spoof the OS to Windows for compatibility reasons.
That alone is causing the Linux numbers to be massively under represented.
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bygweihir ( 88907 ) writes:
Yep. I had to do that manually a while ago because some crappy websites simply could not deal. I guess browsers do that by default now.
bythegarbz ( 1787294 ) writes:
These stats are collected by checking the OS through the browser.
Quite a few browsers out there spoof the OS to Windows for compatibility reasons.
That alone is causing the Linux numbers to be massively under represented.
I know of no Linux distro or browser currently doing that by default, and I doubt millions of people manually set it so. One the flip side I know the site historically counts all sorts of weird bullshit, like a massive drop in MacOS users that explicably was nearly 100% "Unknown" (much to the disappointment of Slashdot), or that time we all celebrated the massive drop in Windows 11, only for it to reverse course the month after (much to the disappointment of Slashdot).
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