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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2015, @03:40AM
With all due respect, no one in the corporate world wants rough edges, wants users to break stuff, or wants their IT staff to have to tinker with each and every everything. Dumbing it down and making it eaiser is necessary to make it desirable for companies and the vast majority of consumers. Except for those who want to get elbow deep in this stuff, and those who have the technical skills to do so (e.g., not your average user), no one wants things that are harder to use. They don't want technology to make their lives harder because technology is supposed to make their lives easier.
Some of us want to tweak things to no end. Mechanics can be like that with their cars. But the vast majority of people just want things to work. If being an IT wiz was required to use a computer we wouldn't have the ginormous computer industry we have today. Same goes for people having to be a mechanic in order to use a car.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Sunday March 08 2015, @04:34AM
Corporate IT wants a single image that can be deployed and managed for all users, and that is quite easy with Linux. They also want security and stability, which Linux covers quite nicely. Also, if a company is not from the US, claims it cares about security and then uses Windows, it's not thinking very clearly. The fact that non-US governments use Windows is completely beyond me.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday March 08 2015, @06:55AM
Many years with the availability of alternatives to Windows show that Corporate IT doesn't really care about security. Yes, there is a lot of lip service paid to security, but in the end, what they really want is to be able to pass the blame elsewhere.