It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.

Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:

After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.

Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it’s growing fast.

  • Sina@beehaw.org
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    10 days ago

    Statcounter considers me a Win user due to the Win user agent I’m using, this is not a rare behavior in the Linux space…

      • Sina@beehaw.org
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        5 days ago

        Because Linux +firefox is like a fingerprinting wet dream, I may be the only one in my locale. (maybe not anymore, but yeah)

        Also Librewolf by default reports Win+Firefox.

        • Cricket [he/him]@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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          10 days ago

          I thought this may be a consideration too, but I would expect it to be a minority of websites that would do this, no?

          • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
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            9 days ago

            It’s definitely a minority, but easy to fix if you encounter such a site even a single time. There are also some sites which refuse to load on Firefox but work fine if you change the user-agent to Chrome.

        • PhilMcGraw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          The only thing I can think of is default download links based on your reported OS. What other functionality would be OS gated?