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- ghandi69, on 10/12/2007, -17/+68@coollettuce
I'm what you might call a 'linux fanboy', but even I think that comment was funny! - walrus2517, on 10/12/2007, -10/+61I recently installed Feisty Fawn to help curb my Civ IV and Rome Total War addictions. In two weeks, I have read 3 new books and learned several new songs on guitar. Its true what they say though, the first 72 hours are the worst. I was curled up in the fetal position sucking my thumb having nightmares of Bill Gates pulling a SWAT dive through my bedroom window with a copy of Vista in his hands...
- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51i bet the increase is directly increasing the price of office chairs in Redmond...
- coollettuce, on 10/12/2007, -71/+115The only reason there's so many Linux and Mac users on digg is because they don't have anything else to do. It's not like they can play games.
- bipolar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43@coollettuce
I know you were joking, but I play World of Warcraft on Linux. What is this 'Time' you speak of? Is that a new quest? - hockey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Redhat Open Genbuntu Core 10.2
- diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33yay! We finally beat Windows ME! Take that, 1999!
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32And this is probably pretty inaccurate, I doubt Linux is at only 0.8%, most of the studies put it around 3-5%
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25That "Bury" menu should really have a "Grammatical Monstrosity" option.
- gtluke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25its ubuntu
i suck at linux, but i use ubuntu and i enjoy it. the other distro's are too difficult for my nub ass - Scyth3, on 10/12/2007, -12/+34I love my Linux OS, but I got a good laugh off of how poorly Vista is doing :)
- meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Yeah, but we're much much closer to cracking 1% now. W00t!!!
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -24/+43way to use % to distort the information. There could've been 10 people know there is 20 that's a 100% gain. Or was there 1,000,000 people before?
Real numbers FTW - coldpockets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I don't see any reason to get hung up on these statistics regardless. The linux community is as alive and well as it ever was. It's not like "Linux" is a corporation and needs to be profitable this quarter to stay alive, or something like that.
- rytyshy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Forget Linux, check out Unknown, it is kicking Linux's butt as far as growth % the last month! (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5&qpcustom=Unknown). I'm gonna install Unknown 1.0 right now!
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@coollettuce
This from someone using the VLC cone, the one true symbol of divinity as an avatar?! Why have you forsaken us? - Antialias, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14What OS does the PS3 report as?
- ucg1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@coollettuce
I'm only on Digg when I am at work where I use a Windows workstation. When I am on my home machines (Linux and OS X) I've got better things to do :) - wonboodoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12According to another article I read, the 100% increase is due to Hans Johanssen of Sweden who, after a hard-disk failure, spent one day connected online from his PC booted from a Linux-live CD. Thanks Hans!
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12W3Schools shows Linux as having less market share than previous months. I don't really trust this source, but W3S I do. I don't really trust the graph, either, as they didn't even label the axis. Linux has browser market share somewhere between zero and ∞? Oh well, go to the W3S page and scroll down.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
March - 3.4%
Feb - 3.5%
Jan - 3.6% - hockey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@Scyth3
Dude at least walrus2517 is giving linux a shot instead of spreading FUD which is more than I can say for most "geeks" on digg :)
(I still dugg you up though) - stfunoobs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12ubuntu? maybe?
- Hubris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Whoooo - we are number......uh.....0.8% !!
- graystar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I think google should do a report. They would have a pretty good idea.
- Bruceleo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It seems t correspond with Fiesty's release.
- 15bit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9And to think - I was part of the 4 tenths of a percent that made it happen.
- trogdor282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Release codename: "Feisty Beaver"
- TheLD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Graph could do with a scale
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Depends on the site, it could be that high on Slashdot or Digg. That number is going even higher thanks to ubuntu. Ubuntu is doing what redhat/fedora wasn't able to do, seriously make a run for the mass market on the desktop. I hack the linux kernel by night but I appreciate ubuntu's ease of use, I only want to use the command line when I'm programming.
- chickenrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@strangewill
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http://www.winehq.org/site/myths - inkubux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wireless works on feisty this is why ;)
- fatejudger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@chris9902
Actually, you're wrong. Almost every credible economist will tell you that absolute numbers are a poor judge of overall changes in market share, company performance, etc. Although the 100% jump could conceivable have been used to misrepresent the numbers, and perhaps it might have been better to show a change in overall market share, it still is far better than saying that the number of Linux users went from 1 million to 2 million. How good is that? How does that number compare to similar products in the industry? These are all questions that remain unanswered because of absolute numbers. - kahrn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I am very skeptical about these statistics, I mean, how exactly are they produced? Do 1000 or so sites provide statistics? If so, what is the target audience of these sites? It's useless saying Linux has 0.8% share if all the sites that were included in the report were sites were all windows related sites or parking domains or something.
I think it'd be a lot better if we took the sales of the various operating systems (and/or downloads of the latest linux distributions) and compiled a report that way. That said, it'd still be unreliable.. as statistics like this always are. - Justathought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Take a look at which distro is surging at distrowatch lately. Then go download it to see why. ;)
Last three months:
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=13
Last 30 days:
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=4
Last 7 days (this may surprise you):
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=1 - bcarl314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6w3schools has linux up around 3.5%
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp - Scyth3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9@chris9902
Considering that if 85% (just for a rough estimate) of computers sold are PC's, most coming preloaded with Vista -- the percentage of people connecting to the internet with Vista is really really low. - krinn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There is something fishy about these numbers. The numbers do seem low, and the increase in Linux is almost entirely offset by a decrease in 'other'. In other words, the Linux users were always there, they just weren't counting them before.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@hockey5
I love that distro! - MasterOfMath, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8@coollettuce I wanted to give you a negative dugg, but then I realized, that I laughed and that you were right, but what are you actually doing on digg?
- coldpockets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Though the W3Schools page is a tech oriented site so naturally it will be skewed towards developers who are interested in alternative browsers and operating systems. I bet if you check a site like yahoo games it's not even close to 3%.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8@Scyth3 - almost as much as Mac in 3 months? I would say that's pretty good.
- mardukvmbc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What is truly scary is that Win98 almost has double the market share of all of Linux... I assume that's all distros together.
I'm a Linux user (at home) btw... - AMSRay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If they used any normal scale, the Linux graph wouldn't show up. It's apparently goes from a baseline of 0% to a maximum of 1%, if they showed the normal 0 - 100% range, the Linux graph would look like a straight line. This is the normal way the media distorts statistics to make data look significant when it isn't.
- hockey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@halobender
Yeah I think the package management tool "yum-got" is totally awesome!
Yeah I know I need to calm down. . . - burkay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4exactly my situation here.
I will call the increase "the ubuntu effect" - Pootle4rthur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I must confess to being a little underwhelmed by a 0.8% market share
It's not the sort of figure that really deserves the words "Surprising Increase"
Still progress is all good, I guess - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11why does everyone say linux cant play games. i plays games!
i play games every ***** day on linux
most of the popular games work in wine or cedega, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of opensource free games, some are really badass
but i mostly play games off the shelf, mostly wow and steam games - topbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2incoming mass ddos attack.
- addicted68098, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish google would release this information
- Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I'd support that.
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