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Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America

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

"gewg_" writes:

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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @07:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @07:30AM (#252205)

    Even of the total number of android users, the percentage is so small it is a rounding error.

    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

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:23PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 20 2015, @12:23PM (#252259) Homepage Journal

    Chrome is "added Google stuff", so zero is correct.

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