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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today
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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/
Windows LatestLinux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbersNo, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died, because the entire spike appears to be driven by AI bots. Almost every month, we […]
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CanIFishHere@CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca
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Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

I thought those numbers looked fishy, now we know why. Actually, the numbers themselves aren’t fishy, the fishy part is misinterpreting them.

Is there a reliable site that does report user installations of OS’s?

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Honytawk@Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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Replying to @⁨CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca⁩

Cloudflare is pretty reliable and usually used to determine desktop use.

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CanIFishHere@CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca
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Thanks!

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