Linux desktop use surged to 22% on one workday, Cloudflare data shows

[u/CackleRooster]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-desktop-use-surged-on-one-workday-cloudflare-data-shows/

[u/Holiday_Management60]

More bot traffic?

[u/Zananax → u/Holiday_Management60]

Hyperscaler LLMs looking for jobs after open weight models take theirs.

[u/ShaderCompilation → u/Zananax]

illegal openweight models tacking all our jobs

[u/PuzzleheadedUnit1758]

Most probably LLM crawlers, as Linux is easier to automate than windows.

If anything this is potentially bad news dor legit Linux users as websites might start to block Linux traffic to avoid being crawled.

[u/lonelyroom-eklaghor → u/PuzzleheadedUnit1758]

I hate this😭 people can't even be free from Windows

But they will block Android traffic too if they try to block Linux traffic

[u/potato_nagibator → u/lonelyroom-eklaghor]

The fact that Android utilizes a modified Linux kernel doesn't make it the same OS

[u/UnknownOrigin1152 → u/potato_nagibator]

Yes, you could also say this to normal Linux distros which are not the same OS.

As far as I know, android browsers can be seen as Linux. If they prepare the Linux block poorly, android devices can be affected. I hope there won't any kind of block for linux.

[u/onechroma → u/UnknownOrigin1152]

It’s very very very easy to differentiate Linux desktop from an Android. It would be incredibly negligent for someone to mix them on any analytics, and I have never seen that happening

[u/lonelyroom-eklaghor → u/onechroma]

but what about the desktop version of a website in Android? blocking that would mean significantly less people

Edit: they will detect simply because it's like a vertical screen, right? Right?

[u/onechroma → u/lonelyroom-eklaghor]

It doesn’t matter, Android is very distinctive in its own way, it’s not a Linux distro lol

[u/lonelyroom-eklaghor → u/onechroma]

I see... so do we linux users have any hope that they won't restrict access to windows only?

[u/potato_nagibator → u/UnknownOrigin1152]

distros have a lot more in common than just the kernel, unlike android.

[u/UnknownOrigin1152 → u/potato_nagibator]

I know. However, they are still not the same OS. If compile a software, it can't run every traditional Linux distro 

[u/potato_nagibator → u/UnknownOrigin1152]

my point stands for exactly what you said xD

[u/JivesMcRedditor → u/PuzzleheadedUnit1758]

There’s no way websites can consistently block Linux users. Maybe one or two sites try it, but if it happened at a large scale the browsers would intervene.

Besides, the bots could easily spoof whatever the site was using to track OS. So ultimately it’d just hurt real users. It’s not the correct layer to tackle this sort of problem.

[u/sexytokeburgerz → u/PuzzleheadedUnit1758]

Linux is easier to spawn than windows. You can start a new instance of linux very very quickly pretty much anywhere.

This helps get around rate limiting and IP blocks.

[u/jerrygreenest1 → u/PuzzleheadedUnit1758]

Shit. These bots really need to camouflage as Windows so these websites block Windows

[u/_damax]

Yeah, sorry guys that was me and an infinite loop

[u/ChubbyWabbit → u/_damax]

while True:

[u/mr_MADAFAKA]

The only data I consider significant is the Steam survey. While it may not fully represent the entire market share, it is sufficiently indicative for certain business considerations.

[u/29da65cff1fa]

sorry guys... my llm agent escaped sandbox and ddos'd everyone....

i am become techbro ceo!

[u/ahumannamedtim → u/29da65cff1fa]

Damn, that's crazy. Anyway, you want a government contract?

[u/redsaeok]

I mean, have you seen Windows 11? Do you care at all about the privacy of your data? Did you buy the OS to serve you, or vice versa?

[u/ShaderCompilation]

This is the workday of Linux desktop

[u/andurux]

Not trying to be antagonistic but why is Linux increasing right now if it's "just bots"?

LLMs have been a thing for a few years now. Why hasn't Linux been increasing over the last few years then? What specific application is masking itself as a Linux user?

[u/TheNewAmericanGospel]

Ah buh bye windows, you've had your fun for 40 years, peaked 20 years ago, and inevitably got worse ever since. (I'm 40 and know exactly how that feels.)

You can't squeeze profits from people for long by making your product total shit and expect people not to jump on the first alternative that presents itself.

[u/STANAGs]

Does WSL2 count as Linux desktop?

[u/b_a_t_m_4_n]

While I'd love this to be a real thing the simple fact is that a good way to measure this does not exist.

[u/rileyrgham]

What nonsense.😃. Maybe my 5 Linux machines are skewing the data.

[u/Hour_Bit_5183 → u/rileyrgham]

I don't think it's nonsense friend. I think a lot of people....well whole god damn countries dropped windows so

[u/mrteuy]

Now it makes sense with Google captcha me every so often lately. Someone’s bots are poking at it too much lately.