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Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] Enkrod@feddit.org 58 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

10.61% in June 2026, up from 3.56% in May

Tripling in ONE MONTH.

Yeah, I'm sorry everyone. As much as all of us love Linux and (rightfully) hate Microslop, that's a jump that simply cannot be explained just by human users.

Data from Cloudflare Radar appears to support that explanation. Cloudflare reportedly recorded a similar rise in Linux traffic, but the spike largely disappeared when its data was filtered to include only traffic identified as human. The comparison is not a direct match for StatCounter's methodology, but it provides a strong indication that bots and automated systems are responsible for much of the sudden increase.

[โ€“] nyan@lemmy.cafe 11 points 2 hours ago

Thing is, "Cloudflare identified this as a normal browser used by a human" doesn't mean it actually is a normal browser with a human in the driver's seat. There are going to be both false positives and false negatives (a browser puppeted by Selenium is still a human-usable browser, after all, and could even be taken over by a human in mid-session; by contrast, a browser whose settings have been chosen by a privacy advocate may make some expected indicators unavailable). So it's hard to make any useful inferences.