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It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

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[–] 555_1@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We could contact that person as a community

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Based on a world population of 8 billion, that would be roughly 0.000000000000008% of a person. It's also not even representable as a 64 bit float so I had to do this math in my head (Calculator just says 0)

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

So you're saying that that number keeps going up as I get closer and closer to the actual weekend when I install it as my daily driver?