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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by warner25 on Monday April 10, 2023 @03:21PM (#35516241)
Wow, that's fascinating. It really speaks to the utter dominance of Windows over Linux more than anything else. Like even among Firefox users, as of last year, there were an order-of-magnitude more Windows 7 and 8 users than Linux 5.x users.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by jonas-w on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:41PM (#35517730)
Don't have any data to back this up, but I would think that the average linux user will instantly turn off firefox telemetry and won't show up on these graphs. It's one of the first things when I install firefox, disable ff telemetry, set privacy mode to strict and then install uBlock. Nevertheless Windows has a huge market share, even if no one turned off data collection, and the year of linux on desktop didn't happen.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by Dalewyn on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:06PM (#35518989)
Similar numbers can be seen with Steam demographics: Linux is nothing compared to Windows 7, to this day.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by CyberDildonics on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:47PM (#35519267)
Windows 7 - 1.6%

Other - 4.09%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265033/proportion-of-ope...

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