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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 BasilBrush on Monday October 19 2015, @11:27PM
The stereotype is that the average Linux user is more savvy
This is perhaps what Linux users believe. Part of the religion perhaps.
As to the main topic, go to the source data, and the numbers don't add up. Linux is around 1.6%, Chrome about 0.7% and unknown (which is being claimed for Linux without justification is about 0.7%. That comes to about 3%.
Hurrah! Quoting works now!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by deimtee on Monday October 19 2015, @11:41PM
I'm running linux. However, my useragent usually says I'm on a Mac.
Amazing how many sites, especially .gov sites, refuse to work under linux, but work fine if you lie about it.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.