No, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died, because the entire spike appears to be driven by AI bots. Almost every month, we […]
  • SitD@lemy.lol
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    22 days ago

    guys don’t tell them that this also means that windows is poop, since it’s either too bad at scaling or at tech infrastructure to even attract ai developers to the platform 😂

    • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      I’m betting that the bots are running in something like ubuntu-node docker images which could’ve been built from any OS.

      I’m also willing to bet that the survey was only ever looking at the OS reported in the User-Agent which those scrapers will change frequently.