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Windows has taken a significant drop over the years, going from being used by over 90% of people to being dropped down to under 60%
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60% is suspiciously low. Most companies use Windows, what is your source?
Last time this was posted it came down to many bots run on Linux. Thus if near 60% of all internet traffic is bots. These numbers show nearly nothing of value when it comes to figure out what humans are using anymore.
The truth is that the data isn't transparent enough, and we have no idea about the causes. Everything is mere speculation
I wish more people would say things like this
Well, the fact of the matter is that the information provided isn't clear enough with its sources, so we must have doubts about the reasons. All of it is simply throwing shit at the wall to see what will stick.
(If you hadn't said "like this", I would have copypasted it… ;-) )
Yeppers. I just wish people could be more capable to say "we really don't know" instead of jumping to conclusions 🙃
This chart is for desktops, I imagine most bots aren't running on desktops, right? So if it's counting bots the methodology is wrong.
They use desktop user agents if they don’t identify themselves with a known bot tag
Yeah, most bots purpose is to spoof what machine and browser they are using for access. So while the many bots are supposed to be spoofing Windows and such, who knows what percentages are getting detected as not. We don't have the data
Last time this, or something like this, was posted it was because fewer and fewer people are using PCs at home. They just have a smartphone or tablet and that's it.
In that case they're not using windows they're using MacOS or Android.
Every time someone brings this, but that same statcounter site show desktop vs mobile somewhat stabilizing a few years ago, so that's not a plausible explanation for current trends. Also, we they're not transparent about their methods or anything, so we can't really know
I made it up
It’s because of the recent explosion in bot traffic. Bots are largely run on Linux, using basic desktop user agents. So when studies like this look at desktop traffic, they see a disproportionately high number of Linux desktop users. But in reality, the vast majority of those “users” are actually just bad bots and scrapers who aren’t properly flagging themselves as bots (because they know sites will block them for scraping content).
this is from statcounter.
I mean - I like the numbers, but I doubt their validity:
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200901-202608
lol, why post it then?
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