Blogger and Linux advocate Robert Pogson reports that, according to StatCounter, pageviews from machines running Linux in Bahrain jumped from 2 percent to 16 percent in less than a week.
One wonders just what's going on there.
His other graph shows that for the last 3 years there has been an uptick in worldwide Linux usage each April; that increase sustains[1] for several months then drops to a level that is slightly higher than the numbers of the previous March and begins a gentle climb until April.
[1] He notes an uncharacteristic divot in the curve this May.
We previously discussed significant Linux usage in Finland and Uruguay. Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is using Linux to be Productive
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Monday June 01 2015, @08:29AM
If one OS goes up, another/others have to go down.
However, this story must be nonsense almost by definition. OS usage changes are happening at a glacial pace therefore this observation cannot reflect true change but rather reflects sampling fluctuation/biased sampling.
Even though submissions are scarce these stories are simple noise themselves, please do not post them.