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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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what i mean is that Claude Code wouldn’t report as a Linux desktop browser without some nefarious behavior. what i mean by “surely” is that it would be shitty of Anthropic or OpenAI to do that for no benefit on their part.
curl,wget,httpie,xh, whatever client use a specificuser-agentthat would be a reasonable default to use for any agent without fucking around pretending just to skew metrics.those header report that they’re bots.