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[–] 110 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I wonder how realistic that is; almost all of the science people I've met run Linux

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    what do you think the 17% unknown is?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My guess would be that few of these machines are used for ordinary web-browsing, or not even online.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    How do you think they got these metrics? People aren't going down there to do science or tourism without being able to communicate back home. It is almost always just statistics from the identifying header information of web traffic. It's not at all uncommon for web traffic from Linux programs to not identify the operating system. I know in my experience identifying as Linux in a browser would be more likely to cause problems than offer any benefit.

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