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Linux on the Desktop: Interesting Webstats Lately

posted by janrinok on Saturday March 07 2015, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the marketshare dept.

"gewg_" writes:

Many people view webstats with a jaundiced eye--with good reason. (page)[1][2]

Linux advocate Robert Pogson finds these statistics interesting; while not taking the numbers as gospel, he finds the trends to be fascinating. In recent weeks, he noticed an upward trend in online Linux usage numbers that has continued.[3]

oiaohm,[4] in the 3rd comment,[2] suspects there is a correlation with the revelation of the preinstalled Superfish malware on Lenovo consumer PCs, with owners apparently abandoning their manufacturer-supplied "recovery" mechanisms, defecting from Redmond's easily-exploited OS, and going instead for Linux install media.

So, Soylentils, any other guesses on a cause? Any estimates on how long the current trend will last? Will it then decrease or increase?

  • [1] The comment that was referenced was quickly removed by Ziff-Davis from their site, of course.
  • [2] Comments on Pogson's blog are numbered top-to-bottom but appear chronologically bottom-to-top.
  • [3] Did Internet Exploder ever get .SVG support?
  • [4] oiaohm is a very knowledgeable guy but his dyslexia can make his writing difficult to decipher.
 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by SlimmPickens on Saturday March 07 2015, @10:20PM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Saturday March 07 2015, @10:20PM (#154254)

    It's because I have so many tabs open in each browser and none of my primary workstations run windows anymore ;)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2015, @12:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2015, @12:33AM (#154288)

    > It's because I have so many tabs open in each browser and none of my primary workstations run windows anymore ;)

    I'm balancing you out. I'm linux-only, and I have a couple of hundred open tabs. But I spoof my user-agent (and associated javascript variables) to say I'm on windows to (a) blend in with all the other VPN users and (b) make it harder for malicious websites to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in my browser.

  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday March 09 2015, @03:19PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Monday March 09 2015, @03:19PM (#154912) Journal

    Sigh...say it with me boys and girls "Correlation is NOT causation"...sigh. Does anybody REALLY believe that somebody who buys a fucking Lenovo is gonna give enough of a shit to install Linux? Really?

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