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- ptFoe, on 12/18/2007, -27/+65osx is marketed for the dumbass rich kid.
From your post it's clear their approach is working well. - inactive, on 12/18/2007, -14/+50if i called you a ***** i would actually be insulting real *****.
- 10goto10, on 12/18/2007, -4/+35I don't know about the actual popularity of Linux on the desktop, but I sure know articles about the popularity of Linux on the desktop are really, really, incredibly popular. I see them daily, at least here on Digg.
- MonsterChaOS, on 12/18/2007, -1/+27Ubuntu 7.10 was the turning point for me. Before that I thought Linux had a TON of flaws that made it unusable for most desktop users. 7.10 has corrected most of my problems and I am really enjoying it. If you've never tried it I'd highly recommend booting up the live CD and giving it a shot.
- Makaveli604, on 12/18/2007, -11/+36I'm a dumbass rich kid and I hate macs.. :(
- ToadLeg, on 12/18/2007, -12/+28There's some people who feel good about themselves without putting other people down.
For everyone else, there's Apple. - r00tus3r, on 12/18/2007, -1/+15I concur. People will look back someday and say Ubuntu is where it all turned around.
- rmd34, on 12/18/2007, -1/+15What's amazing about some of the comments are the number of people that come out of the woodwork to squash another Operating System - be it Linux or Apple or Solaris or whatever. You'd think that choice was a bad thing. Who the ***** cares that it isn't on 90% of the desktops. It's free and it works - in many cases much better than the far more expensive status quo alternative.
- cptl, on 12/18/2007, -6/+20Well obviously.....I mean, this IS the year of the Linux Desktop, isn't it?
- j0hneb0y81, on 12/18/2007, -7/+21THIS JUST IN!
A recent Microsoft study suggests that Vista usage is up!
in other unrelated news, a recent study by apple suggest more people are using OSX then ever! - GMorgan, on 12/18/2007, -1/+1320k is more than enough data points for a survey. Most surveys typically have around 1k.
- yokes, on 12/18/2007, -3/+16Survey says... more people are alive now than ever before.
- sirdaz, on 12/18/2007, -3/+15Dugg for honesty
- reazal, on 12/18/2007, -8/+19Dear Adobe. Now it's the right time to release Dreamweaver and Photoshop for Linux too!
- aiten, on 12/18/2007, -6/+17My company is way behind the times and for some odd reason, developers (like me) have to use Windows XP.
So my computer now stays permanently turned off and I use my own Laptop, which runs (you guessed it) Ubuntu Linux.
I'm much happier as a result, and now only get frustrated when code doesn't work, not the Operating System it's running on. - woohhaa, on 12/18/2007, -1/+12In other news a similar study finds people like free stuff.
- evilregis, on 12/18/2007, -6/+16Not to be a dick... but it's pretty hard for it to get less popular. /posting from Linux Mint
- martalli, on 12/18/2007, -3/+13The numbers in this unscientific poll are certainly small (20k desktiops), but headed up. Our office converted almost all of its desktops to Linux...maybe for once we are ahead of the curve.
- kevinmotel, on 12/18/2007, -3/+12And I'm a poor kid and I scrimped and saved for my mac. I value it all the more.
- ianarcher, on 12/18/2007, -7/+16Correction: the best distro is PaulBuntu. You know, the OS with a built-in Ron Paul RSS feed from Youtube?
- rmd34, on 12/18/2007, -0/+9Bet ya' that flamebot is NOT an Apple user. A dick, yes! An Apple user, no.
- Paapaa, on 12/18/2007, -3/+12This clearly show how DistroWatch's rankings are really only about page hit rankings. They don't reflect the actual popularity of the distro at all.Just look at the situation of PCLinuxOS, Sabayon and Mint - for example. They are really not the popular according to the survey.
And Gentoo seems to have a lot more users than DistroWatch ranking might suggest. - GMorgan, on 12/18/2007, -0/+9Distrowatch themselves claim it is only a page hit ranking system. The numbers are a function of the number of requests for each distros page on distrowatch.
- itsradBrad, on 12/18/2007, -5/+13You mom's legs are up to. Don't forget that "up" for your list.
- rmd34, on 12/18/2007, -0/+8"closer to the ideal of "It just works!" than Linux will ever be."
You must be pretty young. *Ever* is a long, long time... Also sounds like you really haven't looked at what's out there to offer an informed opinion - Linux on the Desktop is clearly a strong viable option. I do, however, will respect the fact that you prefer Vista over the other choices available at present - it's your choice to make. - jcaino, on 12/18/2007, -0/+8you know, that kid from the peanuts. with the blue blanket. yea, him.
- egroeggnik, on 12/18/2007, -3/+11Because I'm cheap, and it's free.
I also like to dabble in code every now and then, and sometimes it's nice to see the source (or change it and recompile, etc. - GMorgan, on 12/18/2007, -3/+11Quite sad that you let a disturbed person influence your choice of OS. I'd be more worried about that than anything else.
- bahamutxd, on 12/18/2007, -4/+11Let's hope you don't procreate and add to the number.
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -0/+7We all know that the DW's HPD is broken (or tricked), we all know that pclinuxos isn't that popular.
- rmd34, on 12/18/2007, -2/+9Oh... so this is what explains the sales of Vista.
- dharmaone, on 12/18/2007, -1/+7We run an ASP based work order system. When we need more workstations, I take a cheap box, Ubuntu it and put it on the network. Runs the system through Firefox great. I've even put CD based Linux systems in warehouses to access the system.
That's how it starts. - norman619, on 12/18/2007, -1/+7There's a rebel in every bunch.
- MattBD, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6Every year is the year of the Linux desktop compared to the year before.
- JamesMorris, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6ZOMG SAY IT ISN'T TRUE? IS IT GOING TO BE THE YEAR FOR LINUX?... AGAIN!
/linux nerd. - TheCosmicFool, on 12/18/2007, -1/+7So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
-The wave speech, Hunter S. Thompson
I don't think linux is going to go away. Windows is the place to be for gaming but for office use its Linux for me. - int10h, on 12/18/2007, -1/+7Yes, at least for a year.
- SSUK, on 12/18/2007, -2/+7"... according to the Linux Foundation survey ..."
Nice to know it's not a bias source at all... - jcaino, on 12/18/2007, -0/+5That sound over your head? It's not a plane.
- sirdaz, on 12/18/2007, -1/+6.. again
- DavidGX, on 12/18/2007, -0/+5Unless you're a PC gamer, linux will probably do whatever you want it to. I personally prefer games on game consoles so.. good here. Ubuntu really is nice and the community is awesome.
- Ademan, on 12/18/2007, -0/+5I honestly prefer Gimp to photoshop... I don't use CMYK or whatever, I'm a ***** "artist", and Gimp suits me fine. In fact, I used Gimp long before I ever touched photoshop, and you know what happened when i used photoshop for the first time? I went "wtf is this *****?". I'm sick and tired of hearing about photoshop's "superior" interface, it's not better, it's different, and 99% of artists LEARNED photoshop's interface, and can't stand gimp
s because it's different...
(Don't get me wrong, I don't think Gimp is better, it's not, photoshop is superior in many ways, just the user interface argument bugs the ***** out of me)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
-- Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, on X interfaces - sirhomer, on 12/18/2007, -0/+5I still stand on my point that Photoshop zealots are the worst. Anytime a news story comes out that says anything remotely postive about The GIMP, the news story is full of pirated Photoshop ***** talkers who who talk the most ridiculus smack out of any group of people I have ever seen.
Then there are the Photoshop ***** talkers who say Linux will never be "popular" without running Photoshop, like some $800 image editor is some kind of ***** holy grail of software which everyone and their mother owns a copy of (yet they probably use a pirated copy). - inactive, on 12/18/2007, -2/+6Yeah, Windows is a real treat too.
- bruce89, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4Looking at your comments, you systematically go through all Linux related posts and say something like "It's crap, buy a mac".
You are a credit to your species. - DemonWasp, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4@norman: Hmm, I suppose if you had something ASP or .NET based you might have a harder time. Either way, I was under the impression that Remote Desktop worked from Linux to Windows just fine - could someone enlighten me?
- norman619, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4Quite the fetish you have there.
- rmd34, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4One of the valid reasons are proprietary data formats. This is not the fault of the OS, it's the fault of short-term planning which can be corrected over time. During our last overhaul, we too took stock of future costs and decided that we needed to plan for the long-term, which included not having to purchase 300+ new machines to run the same applications. This occurred with the relase of Vista (all five of them).
The cost of converting our documents and DBs was neglible compared to the continued costs of upgrading and retraining on OS operations. The transition is happening slowly but it's happening. - sukimashita, on 12/18/2007, -1/+5What is really interesting that the biggest part of those switching are actually those who form the "base" of the IT community/movement: Developers.
- loconet, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4Ah yes ignorance, the spice of life
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