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Linux Browser Marketshare Strikes Above 3%

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

mrpg writes:

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: 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....