We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.
You’re free to whatever opinion you might have but it’s not a secret that Google used to change their search page to a more limited one if you were using Firefox.
Hence people created add-ons to change the User Agent to mimic Chrome when accessing Google.
Edit: I just reread your comment and noticed that you only quoted the part about Windows.
I’ll just let my comment remain but it’s okay that you’re having an opinion that spoofing OS when accessing websites is not needed.
I’m well aware of that. Browser and OS aren’t the same thing. Weird.
I had to check if I was alone on this…I wasn’t. First hit on a quick Google:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/z5sidv/me_every_time_a_web_page_doesnt_work_because/
So yeah, not alone… this is the hill I’m dying on😁
I’ve been daily driving Linux for over 3 years and don’t remember ever seeing it. And as a web developer I know the only way that would happen is if a shitty business decision mandated it.
…and shitty business decisions there are plenty of.
So you are calling everyone out on this because you started using Linux too recently to witness it, therefore it didn’t happen.