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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) 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. :)