Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by janrinok on Monday October 19 2015, @05:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the upward-trend dept.

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.

Previous: Given the Choice for Christmas 2014, Consumers Chose Linux
Big Jump in Bahrain: Linux Now At 16 Percent


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday October 19 2015, @08:14PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Monday October 19 2015, @08:14PM (#252004)

    Android alone, without any of the added Google stuff, is vastly more open than Windows, almost to the point of Linux.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @09:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @09:16PM (#252040)

    > 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) by BasilBrush on Monday October 19 2015, @11:30PM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Monday October 19 2015, @11:30PM (#252101)

    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

      by Nerdfest (80) on Tuesday October 20 2015, @01:31AM (#252132)

      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.