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Linux continues rising above 3% desktop user share on Statcounter (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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The latest from Statcounter shows:

  • January - 2.91%
  • February - 2.94%
  • March - 2.85%
  • April - 2.83%
  • May - 2.7%
  • June - 3.07%
  • July - 3.12%
  • August - 3.18%
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alot of people in firefox set Resist Fingerprint to true that contributes to this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How so? Does a non-fingerprinted Firefox always cöaim it's installed on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On Ubuntu, it used to say Ubuntu. On Arch, it used to say Linux on non fingerprinted firefox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be the other way around? If you don't want to stand out as unique to trackers shouldn't you claim to be using the most popular OS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that is why privacy resistfingerprint option does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, meaning it wouldn't claim to be a standout like some Linux distro, but Windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, but not on Windows though, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well then this setting contributes nothing to Linux percentage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It hurts