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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @11:10PM
Don't care for the editorializing footnotes. They would be better as comments in the post.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @11:35PM
All of the footnotes are mine.
The editor only added the li tag to those.
Some here may object to the barb directed at the single-platform browser, but all others are perfectly appropriate as-is.
Let me guess: You skipped out on English Composition class.
If you like to see stories that agree perfectly with your sensibilities, there's a cure for that.
http://soylentnews.org/submit.pl [soylentnews.org]
-- gewg_
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2015, @01:37AM
Did Internet Exploder ever get .SVG support?
You are pure troll baiting there. It would have taken you about 3 seconds of googling to see if it were true or not.
You are using baiting questions to foster 'we vs they' 'debate'. It is nothing more than trying to create a fight. Someone called you out on it.
Your other 'questions' are basically of the same ilk but slanted towards what you want people to think.
Let me demonstrate how it works "Can gewg_ tell the difference between fostering debate and pushing his agenda?" See how I phrased my opinion in the form of a question that is backed up by what you have done? The media 'news outlets' use this form of 'debate' to good effect for not fostering debate. But to make fun of their perceived opponent. I keep saying this but it is getting harder and harder to say gewg_, you are better than that.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday March 08 2015, @05:48AM
Don't care for the editorializing footnotes. They would be better as comments in the post.
Only one that seems out of place is 3, because 1. a search would find it and 2. "Internet Exploder". Though to be fair, the editors have been trying to clean that stuff up. Gewg is just determined to add as many as possible because he likes putting more work on the editors.
I didn't even noticed he did it in this one until others pointed it out. Funny enough, the last submission he did something similar on, I said his name replacement habit was "only a small step above complaining about "MicroSux Internet Exploder" so maybe he added that footnote specifically for me. Either that, or he's slowly devolving into a stereotypical neckbeard linux user and by sometime next year his posts will be indistinguishable from parody. :)
(Score: 1) by Refugee from beyond on Sunday March 08 2015, @09:28AM
They are fine as long as news text and footnotes are visually separated in some way.
Instantly better soylentnews: replace background on article and comment titles with #973131.