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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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This site is using stats based on browser's users agent string, very unreliable source of imformation today. Please stop celebrating when it have an anomaly and do it's temporary spike up or down every couple of months.
Linux is in fact rising, like all desktop OSes besides Windows, because Windows is losing market share. But celebrating stats from this site is not worth it.
Librewolf uses windows UA to avoid fingerprinting so yes, that is not reliable method.
I wonder if it's more like 8%
The majority of the "unknown" stats are most likely Windows if you compare the graphs.
Bla, Bla, Bla Linux market share is spiking.
That's what what I got out of your extremely large comment. Time to go back to my party
I ain't reading that essay