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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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[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lol no you wouldn’t. I’d be shocked if Lemmy users were greater than 20% Linux.

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

Weird configs aren’t always a tell, my daily driver is a desktop with a tigerlake mobile engineering sample cpu

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you implying that the host OS in those situations is not Linux?

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yes. Probably VirtualBox.