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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      2 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.

      • PhilMcGraw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 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?

      • Cricket [he/him]@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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        6 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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          5 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.