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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•5 months agoWhat is unknown? Various Unix variants? Custom embedded operating systems ( does that count as desktop?)?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoMe, changing my user agent to “Browser McBrowserFace”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoI know this is probably a joke, but don’t do that. It gives you a unique fingerprint.
minus-squaremiss phantlinkfedilinkEnglish9•5 months agoSo I’ve looked into the yearly stats and macOS stats and the fact that they call it OS X and the macOS version stats only go up to Catalina (the last 10.x, released in 2019) makes me believe most of these are macOS 11+ users.
minus-squareFireWire400linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-25 months agoThings like Haiku (or BeOS), ReactOS, ArcaOS, AmigaOS etc. I don’t think they do but maybe they’re also counting type 1 hypervisors. Edit: Nevermind, I thought they bundled in “Other” into that category; they didn’t, as evident by the chart below the stats which includes “Other”. It’s probably just the case of they couldn’t determine the OS being used.
What is unknown? Various Unix variants? Custom embedded operating systems ( does that count as desktop?)?
maybe browsers that obfuscate that information
Me, changing my user agent to “Browser McBrowserFace”
I know this is probably a joke, but don’t do that. It gives you a unique fingerprint.
So I’ve looked into the yearly stats and macOS stats and the fact that they call it OS X and the macOS version stats only go up to Catalina (the last 10.x, released in 2019) makes me believe most of these are macOS 11+ users.
Things like Haiku (or BeOS), ReactOS, ArcaOS, AmigaOS etc.
I don’t think they do but maybe they’re also counting type 1 hypervisors.
Edit: Nevermind, I thought they bundled in “Other” into that category; they didn’t, as evident by the chart below the stats which includes “Other”.
It’s probably just the case of they couldn’t determine the OS being used.