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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: 4, Interesting) by choose another one on Saturday March 07 2015, @11:09PM

    by choose another one (515) on Saturday March 07 2015, @11:09PM (#154262)

    Why would appliances be counted in the "desktop os" stats, surely they would come under console or maybe tablet ?

    But the real question is why is anyone interested in a small increase in desktop market share (just over an eighth the size of WinXP - an OS MS discontinued security patches for over a year ago...) when the desktop market is cratering - now smaller than mobile in several countries, see:
    http://gs.statcounter.com/press/mobile-internet-usage-soars-by-67-perc [statcounter.com]

    Mobile market looks very different, with about zero windows share, and of course excellent for Linux - well Android/Linux at least, GNU/Linux is as irrelevant as Windows on mobile:
    http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201402-201502-bar [statcounter.com]

    All the above is all assuming web usage market stats actually matter, and that you believe them...

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