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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers
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The numbers already accounted for bots.
Classic bots (e.g. standard web crawlers, as used by search engines, that report their both nature inside their user agent) or the modern LLM-controlled bots that control a full modern browser that also runs javascript?
Because I can imagine they account for the first category, while missing the latter, which have become increasingly more prominent.
The kind that wants to not appear as a bot is unlikely to send a Linux user agent even if running on Linux.
It doesn't have to be on purpose. Web crawlers like Google's specifically identify themselves as a bot. A headless browser just acts like any normal browser, and uses the same user agent as one, just controlled by code rather than a keyboard and mouse.