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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 03 2017, @01:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the almost-a-drop-in-the-bucket dept.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-3p-Browser-Market-Share

According to Net Applications' Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%.

The company is reporting a 3.37% Linux marketshare for August 2017, a rise from 2.53% a month prior and the first time they have reported the Linux desktop marketshare above 3%.

They report Windows meanwhile at 90.7%, macOS at 5.94%, and the other operating systems statistically at zero. Their monthly report can be found here.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 03 2017, @02:14PM (7 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday September 03 2017, @02:14PM (#563139) Journal

    Also there's those users who simply block any tracking. Those will certainly not show up in any statistics, and it is well possible that this is correlated with the choice of operating system.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Sunday September 03 2017, @02:19PM (6 children)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Sunday September 03 2017, @02:19PM (#563140)

    This is what I was thinking as well. Pretty much everyone I know who runs Linux blocks pretty much everything. I don't really know of anyone who spoofs agent strings as a matter of practice. If they just use the agent string from a main site as opposed to something done with JavaScript their numbers might be okay.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @04:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @04:46PM (#563176)

      I do not send any user agent at all, and things are generally fine. I stopped sending it when sites began to stop working because they didn't like my browser version or platform.
      It's none of their fucking business.

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday September 03 2017, @07:39PM (4 children)

      by frojack (1554) on Sunday September 03 2017, @07:39PM (#563210) Journal

      I don't really know of anyone who spoofs agent strings

      Exactly.

      Your Ublock/Adblock/Noscript usually don't even touch your User Agent String. You have to go out of your way to dick with this, and then suffer all the consequences when your bank refuses to connect or some random site fails. So you then need a fall-back setting just for those sites.

      Thought you had that taken care of? Maybe you better check! [whoishostingthis.com]

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      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:13PM (#563231)

        I spoof UA on linux and windows. My fake virus popups tell me my mac is running slow :)

        Spoofing UA will lead to sites running the wrong exploits against your device and that is worth it for me.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @03:28AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @03:28AM (#563279)

        Me. Apparently I'm running Mozilla on Windows NT 10.
        In reality I'm currently running Mageia linux. And yes, it's because some .gov.au sites refuse to even serve content to linux.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @06:00AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @06:00AM (#563306)

          And yes, it's because some .gov.au sites refuse to even serve content to linux.

          Can you sue those fuckers? I mean there probably is some anti-discrimination law or some such.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @01:52PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @01:52PM (#563450)

            Well I suppose you could consider the emotional attachment some people tie to their browser of choice as being a religion, so I guess you could argue they are discriminating on religious belief. Seems like a stretch, though. There did seem to be a jihad against IE for years, though....