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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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

Yes, that is why privacy resistfingerprint option does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

Okay, but not on Windows though, right?

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

Yeah

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

Well then this setting contributes nothing to Linux percentage

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

It hurts