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Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿง (gs.statcounter.com)
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[โ€“] hddsx@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago (5 children)

What is unknown? Various Unix variants? Custom embedded operating systems ( does that count as desktop?)?

[โ€“] joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

maybe browsers that obfuscate that information

[โ€“] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Me, changing my user agent to "Browser McBrowserFace"

[โ€“] nebulaone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I know this is probably a joke, but don't do that. It gives you a unique fingerprint.

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