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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday April 16 2015, @03:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the does-homework-suck-less-with-Linux? dept.

According to StatCounter, in September 2014, Linux usage in Malta was 1 percent. By October, usage was over 4 percent. There was a peak after Christmas and current numbers are around 5 percent.

Blogger and Linux advocate Robert Pogson has charted the numbers. He says:

Malta is one of those places where the small size allows one to see significant migrations to GNU/Linux desktop in their full glory. Notice the ascendance of GNU/Linux in the same week that school started that year. The peak usage was on Thursday, 2015-Jan-8 at 6.83% a day or two after the Christmas break ended. Even use on weekends showed dramatic growth.

 
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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @03:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @03:38AM (#171355)

    This is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen. And I've seen Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @04:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @04:01AM (#171371)

    There was a time when the anti-FOSS crowd would point to the numbers given by these aggregator services and scoff that Linux usage was 1 percent.
    Now, when the numbers show something different, the services and their statistics are suddenly of no consequence.

    -- gewg_

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @04:06AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @04:06AM (#171378)

      100% of Maltese users using Linux would still be pretty much 0% globally.

      1000% of Maltese users using Linux would yet still be pretty much 0% globally.

      Even 10000% of Maltese users using Linux would once more be pretty much 0% globally.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:07AM

        by jmorris (4844) on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:07AM (#171390)

        Yes and no. Not sure if Malta is quite big enough but if any notable political subdivision were to get anything like 100% penetration top to bottom it really would change everything. Suddenly every commercial entity doing business with it would have to take that fact into account. IE only webpages are already becoming rare outside narrow niches but such a development would instantly end it outside of internal WANs. Office documents would also suddenly offer alternatives assured to be readable. And so on. The network effect that has locked Microsoft and Office into a position where they are considered unassailable by 'all right thinking people' would quickly fall apart... even faster than the mobile revolution is already challenging many of the same assumptions; but only madmen are deploying Android and iOS in corporate productivity right now so Windows/Office is still almost entirely dominate. Being forced to interop with Linux would challenge it because once the calculus became 'everything must be interchanged in a cross platform format' the lock in vanishes. Many more would suddenly be free to shift platforms and many of them would, although many would still be locked to internal systems like Exchange.

        And some lock in is probably good. I wouldn't want a sudden bandwagon away from them to destroy Microsoft and leave Google and RedHat to dominate, meet the new boss(s) which would (are) quickly become the same as the old boss. I want to see Microsoft reduced, but still a double digit player, only more like 20-30% instead of 90%. I even want to see new players. Linux under RedHat's iron rulership is in need of a new scrappy competitor.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 16 2015, @06:15AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 16 2015, @06:15AM (#171412) Journal

        100% of Maltese users using Linux would still be pretty much 0% globally.

        100% of Texas students would still be pretty much 0% globally.
        However, when looking what the Texas School Board does with the "controversy" to the entire US education and how many education ministers exist in this world and stoopid enough to follow US as a model... (shudders).

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 16 2015, @07:05AM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday April 16 2015, @07:05AM (#171425)

        The population of the U.S. isn't even 5% of the world's.

        Guess we don't matter either, then.

        --
        "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
      • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday April 16 2015, @08:04AM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday April 16 2015, @08:04AM (#171455) Journal

        But it is Malta. Do you know of what you speak? Malta, the base of the Knights Templar, and then the Knights of Malta (still extant). Home of a language unrelated to any on earth, almost. Possible site of Atlantis, or the Isle of Circe, or that other nymph Odysseus had after (Calypso?). So yes, your math is correct. But numbers are not all the world is made of. I recommend "V" by Thomas Pynchon. Mediterranean. Big time.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:27AM (#171396)

      in a sample that has 15 billion page views per month, how many unique visitors do you think are coming from Malta? Take into consideration that preferential attachment means that highly populous countries are more likely to be overrepresented in the sample since there are more websites catering to the larger populations.

      Also, what are the odds that webcrawlers are excluded from the sample?

      Dumbass.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @04:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @04:01AM (#171372)

    It is a gewg_ submission, after all. We should be thankful that we didn't get an eyeful of extreme left-wing wackiness.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @06:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @06:27AM (#171420)

      We should be thankful that we didn't get a google link

      FTFY

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by aristarchus on Thursday April 16 2015, @08:17AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday April 16 2015, @08:17AM (#171460) Journal

      It is a gewg_ submission, after all. We should be thankful that we didn't get an eyeful of extreme left-wing wackiness.

      Yes, that would be terrible for you. But it does remind me of my time as a cowboy. We were pushing cattle up a chute, which tend to unnerve them and loosen their bowels. Needless to say, the bullshit was everywhere. In one memorable incident, a bovine kicked a load of such matter directly at the face of an unlucky cowpoke (no, seriously, that's what we called ourselves). The wry comment by another on the entire incident was: " Good thing you had your mouth open or you would've gotten that all over your face."

      Do I have to actually draw the analogy in a way that even readers of Sad Puppies could understand? OK, If you hadn't had your mind closed, left-wing wackiness (otherwise known as the opposite of bullshit) would have gotten into you eyes and possibly spread to your mind. But this is where the joke falls flat. It was never going to happen. Do you even know were Malta is? Can you find it on a map? Are you an American? Which way is under?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @08:46AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @08:46AM (#171481)

        I approve of this comment.
        (Yes, I did LOL.)

        -- gewg_