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Ironically, I’m not sure it matters.
people running bots are still a large section of an OS’s market share. Microsoft wouldn’t hesitate to include bots and such like because it inflates the appearance that “everyone just uses it”. which does in fact drive up usage.
People running bots are still people using computers and such.
if I would to run bots I would only ever use windows or mac osx user agents. I would never use linux
Source: windowslatest 🧐
The numbers already accounted for bots.
Classic bots (e.g. standard web crawlers, as used by search engines, that report their both nature inside their user agent) or the modern LLM-controlled bots that control a full modern browser that also runs javascript?
Because I can imagine they account for the first category, while missing the latter, which have become increasingly more prominent.
The kind that wants to not appear as a bot is unlikely to send a Linux user agent even if running on Linux.
Kinda assumed that. Who really thinks Linux usage DOUBLED worldwide in a month?
Wonder if Europe’s “digital sovereignty” is having an impact.
I’ve seen a significant increase in the numbers of “I’ve finally switched!” posts to Linux groups. No clue how much that moves the needle though.
There are a lot of Linux fanboys (especially on Lemmy) that are huffing some serious copium and think it’s a sign that Linux is taking over the desktop landscape at an alarming rate.
The spike was too much of an abnormality to come across as organic.
I misread “fanboys” as “femboys” and I was so confused lol
I mean there’s a non-zero overlap in this case.
True :3
Those bots could’ve been running a microslop os. Missed opportunity
A missed opportunity would’ve been to identify as a “Plan 9” OS user, causing panic about attacks from alien-controlled undead.
