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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 VLM on Sunday March 08 2015, @11:50AM
Desktop linux is a teenage boy who does well in math class and is not one of the cool kids.
The old graybeard teacher tells the kid, "keep working hard and you'll become a great mathematician". In comparison to that, some of the cool kids get tramp stamps and goof off a lot.
So the kid, wanting to be cool, gets an ugly tramp stamp and goofs off.
End result is the kid is no longer seriously in the running to be a great mathematician, has an ugly as F tramp stamp that everyone laughs at, and still isn't one of the cool kids. Because the cool kids were cool despite their stupid design decisions, not because of them. Oh well, there's always freebsd.
Meanwhile you got squads of 50-something white boys trying to figure out in their echo chamber which color scheme for tramp stamps is cooler and more likely to increase sales simultaneously to grannies and female urban minorities, because they're so cool (LOL) that they're experts on selling crap. Hmm we can make money selling dorks earrings or 3d desktop compositors... lets see if the kid is dumb enough to fall for it again and make a fool of himself while sending us sweet sweet contracting money "Hey, come here kid, we can sell you something to make you cool..."
Thank you gnome, kde, and systemd ! I'll be laughing at you from my freebsd desktop over here...