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Comment Re:Bots (Score 1) 88

Threw it into Claude to diagnose. The short and sweet version, TLDR

The July 2026 jump to 10.65% in North America is mostly a measurement artifact — StatCounter's "Unknown" category (~9.24% in June) collapsed and that traffic, which skews toward Linux users on privacy-hardened browsers and VPNs, got reclassified as Linux, and the figure is still inside a 45-day revision window from a dataset that already had an acknowledged error in June. Underneath the noise the trend is real but modest: Windows 10's end of support and Proton-enabled gaming are driving genuine switching, though device-based counts like Valve's Steam survey (~3.7% Linux) suggest the true installed base is well under half what the traffic number implies. The bigger structural driver is that StatCounter measures pageviews, not machines — as casual users abandon desktops for phones, the remaining desktop traffic pool gets more power-user-heavy, so Linux's share climbs even without a single new install.

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