System being recognized as windows

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Hi, For some reason my system is being recognized as windows instead of Linux system. This might not be such a big issue but I am a little concerned. Any Help is appreciated. I am on the Home Edition of Parrot OS which was installed last month on my system. Recently, when I logged in on Gmail and the usual security email was sent, it said that a windows device just logged in. Other than that, I was trying to download the ms teams .deb file from the MS website and it kept on showing me the windows .exe file download link, and when I logged in on my linux lite os and went to the same page, it directly showed me the .deb file download link.

  • Parrot version in use (if you are not aware of it, open terminal and type cat /etc/os-release | grep VERSION): 
VERSION_ID="5.0"
VERSION="5.0 (LTS)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
  • Kernel version (if you are not aware of it, open terminal and type uname -r): 
5.14.0-9parrot1-amd64

  • Logs/Terminal output (use pastebin or similar services):

  • Screenshots:

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Website detects your system using User-agent. you can use any user-agent changer (firefox add-ons) to change it to Linux and try again

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Oh alright, I will try it. Thank you!

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hello me it was the same but instead that the website recognizes it is my machine name in the terminal which changes and I don’t use sudo because it doesn’t recognize this machine. Is the
problem known? if so can you help me?

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