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Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Definitely a mix of both. I estimate bot pollution is likely growing much faster than natural Linux desktop adoption, though. Simply because LLM based bots are appearing everywhere. I wouldn‘t be surprised if Linux Desktop breaks the 25% mark soon just because of bots.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I do buy the argument that the majority of the shift is due to AI bots / agents. Just looking at the robots.txt I had to implement just to try to keep the majority of bots off my websites is insane (literally 160+ lines of user agents).

    But there are some other factors, such as the seemingly steady migration of users from Windows to Linux. I don't buy the Valve hardware argument as much since the majority of those will be used for gaming on Steam, and not likely to be seen by StatCounter or Cloudflare.

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