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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2015, @11:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2015, @11:24AM (#154814)

    I do hope that Linux Desktop skyrockets. Because what will skyrocket is the "standard" desktop environments. Since I don't run those, I'll not be affected by the rise of attacks on those (and the attacks will be on those environments, because they will be the easy targets). On the other hand, hardware compatibility is largely independent of the desktop environment, therefore I'll still profit from improved hardware compatibility as soon as manufacturers cannot any longer afford to ignore Linux.