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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, @11:30PM
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.