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 Nerdfest on Monday October 19 2015, @08:14PM
Android alone, without any of the added Google stuff, is vastly more open than Windows, almost to the point of Linux.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @09:16PM
> Android alone, without any of the added Google stuff, is vastly more open than Windows, almost to the point of Linux.
And the number of chrome users who use "android alone" is zero. Even of the total number of android users, the percentage is so small it is a rounding error.
But thanks for yet again demonstrating that literalism is not realism. It wouldn't be a geek site without it!
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @07:30AM
http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-os-ww-monthly-201501-201507 [statcounter.com] puts android at over 25% on its own, so you're full of shit
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:23PM
Chrome is "added Google stuff", so zero is correct.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Monday October 19 2015, @11:30PM
Android alone doesn't do anything. Drivers for stuff like the radio stack will never be open source.
Hurrah! Quoting works now!
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday October 20 2015, @01:31AM
That's not what he (or at least most people) was referring to. Currently, even desktops and laptops without closed BIOS, etc, are few and far between.