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Interesting Usage Statistics for Desktop Linux in Malta

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday April 16 2015, @03:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the does-homework-suck-less-with-Linux? dept.

"gewg_" writes:

According to StatCounter, in September 2014, Linux usage in Malta was 1 percent. By October, usage was over 4 percent. There was a peak after Christmas and current numbers are around 5 percent.

Blogger and Linux advocate Robert Pogson has charted the numbers. He says:

Malta is one of those places where the small size allows one to see significant migrations to GNU/Linux desktop in their full glory. Notice the ascendance of GNU/Linux in the same week that school started that year. The peak usage was on Thursday, 2015-Jan-8 at 6.83% a day or two after the Christmas break ended. Even use on weekends showed dramatic growth.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Thursday April 16 2015, @03:36AM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Thursday April 16 2015, @03:36AM (#171351) Journal

    Did some university on the island start using Linux on their latest laptops? Wentworth in Boston does.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday April 16 2015, @04:02AM

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 16 2015, @04:02AM (#171373) Journal

    In a small town, all it takes is one interested instructor to get a lot of kids to try something like a new OS, but risking the family computer might not be too popular with the family. So it might be something line a corporate or government refresh sending a lot of older computers to surplus and getting them donated to schools or something.

    In spite of Washington state having a massive refurb project for surplus state computers into shcools (run by the state prisons). The schools put them into labs. They beg licenses from Microsoft who would rather give windows away than get a bunch of kids trained in linux.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:36PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:36PM (#171551) Homepage
    Did stat-counter simply find a new way of gathering stats such that ad/script/webbug-blocking linux users now get sniffed out whereas previously they were under the radar?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @01:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @01:32PM (#171577)

    Well it is a technology institute, at least theoretically. Knew a girl who went there once....to see her boyfriend.