With another of his graphs derived from StatCounter data, blogger and Linux advocate Robert Pogson reports
It was only a few years ago that the sycophants of M$ were trumpeting that */Linux was struggling to reach ~1% share of the desktop anywhere. Many of those were in USA.
Well, the chickens have come home to roost in The Year Of The Linux Desktop. */Linux has ~5% share. Are we there yet? Nope. FLOSS is still going places and growing stronger every year. Classical GNU/Linux grew rapidly until mid-year when Android/Unknown and Chrome OS took up slack. It's all good.
I would have said "He who laughs last laughs best" but, hey, it's his blog.
...and remembering how Chromebooks dominated the sales figures last Christmas, I can't wait to see how the SteamBox sales go this Christmas.
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(Score: 2) by novak on Monday October 19 2015, @06:11PM
I am not convinced this is wrong; lots of people who had previously never even heard of linux have been giving it a go recently, especially with windows 10 being such a pile of evil.
But I also don't believe it, just look at the noise in those graphs. I'm happy to hear about more linux but I'm not impressed that that is necessarily the case.
novak
(Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Monday October 19 2015, @11:33PM
Linux market share has been flatlining forever. Go to the source data, and the conclusions don't add up.
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