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Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Yeah, I'm sorry everyone. As much as all of us love Linux and (rightfully) hate Microslop, that's a jump that simply cannot be explained just by human users.
Partially sarcastic, but I did convince 3 people to switch to Linux this year
Thing is, "Cloudflare identified this as a normal browser used by a human" doesn't mean it actually is a normal browser with a human in the driver's seat. There are going to be both false positives and false negatives (a browser puppeted by Selenium is still a human-usable browser, after all, and could even be taken over by a human in mid-session; by contrast, a browser whose settings have been chosen by a privacy advocate may make some expected indicators unavailable). So it's hard to make any useful inferences.