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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @10:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @10:52PM (#154259)

    Yes and stop calling it Internet Exploder. It makes you look dumb

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @11:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @11:18PM (#154268)

    stop calling it Internet Exploder. It makes you look dumb

    Why? Isn't that its name? And isn't it named for what it does? Explodes the Internet? And wasn't this what exploded Micro$erf, and got them convicted of being an illegal monopoly? So I don't see how using the real names for things makes anyone look unable to speak (or did you mean a different meaning of "dumb"?).

  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Saturday March 07 2015, @11:39PM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Saturday March 07 2015, @11:39PM (#154277)

    I'm actually okay with the first two. The last two read like op-ed.

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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday March 08 2015, @07:29PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Sunday March 08 2015, @07:29PM (#154571) Homepage

    Basically you're saying, i.e., IE?

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday March 09 2015, @10:40AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday March 09 2015, @10:40AM (#154803) Journal

    Microsoft will do way more to get $$ than many other companies. They are completely spineless. On top of this they are convicted of being a monopolist in US and EU courts. So they the deserves the name Micro$oft. Since 1984 "the bomb" is a symbol for malfunctioning software that are on the way to explode, with great inspiration from Apple Macintosh. Internet Explorer is known in the spineless tradition to ignore or bastardize standards. And it's prone to software malfunction, serious malfunction. Thus it get the name Internet Exploder.