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No, Linux didn't actually hit 10% market share. Blame bots (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

So this whole article is a panic/damage control piece by vested windows interests.

The tldr is that yes bots account for a chunk of the overall increase in usage, and therefore market share, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that more and more machines (virtual or physical) are being driven by Linux.

[–] huey_m@piefed.social 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not to mention... do they think bots on windows don't exist?

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

They exist. But it's mostly viruses. Every competent script monkey runs their bots on Linux servers, unless it's someone's else PC.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

While I'm not disagreeing with you, the claim was that Linux reached 10% on Desktop. That is suggesting that 1 in 10 users are using Linux. The bot traffic is largely coming from servers, not desktop users. So this data could just mean not traffic is ramping up and it's largely Linux servers (unsurprising) and that actual desktop usage barely moved.