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- geoken, on 10/10/2007, -10/+61Innacurate.
The number of people who took desktoplinux.com's survey doubled. This doesn't really reveal to much.
From the horses mouth;
"Part of the increase undoubtedly was because this year's survey received front page coverage on both Digg and the German news site, Heise Online. " - schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -7/+38You can't count Linux users, so the headline is nonsensical.
- ElbridgeGerry, on 10/10/2007, -5/+22Linux lacks capital letter support.
- sctwp09, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Even schestowitz disagrees with the article...
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18I hope this is "The Year People Stop Saying That *****". I think Linux's future looks pretty promising, but nobody ***** says, "This is the Year Of Desktop Linux". Shut up, for *****'s sake. Don't speak again until you have something intelligent to add.
- gameforge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I BEG TO DIFFER.
- mendred, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Umm its not code..its a simplified version of
open ur file manager as administrator goto the folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and copy all files that start with mplayerplug-in-dvx. to folder /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
Never used the copy command in windows command prompt? Np. My dad had never used the linux terminal either..yet when i send him commands by mail to troubleshoot any issues he may have, he has no trouble opening a console, and pasting the commands to get his stuff working..there is a gui way of doing it alrgiht..but then there is the added hassle of actually guiding him through the steps by phone..go here..click this..what message comes up? Click ok and so on..Support is so simple because of the flexibiltiy of the console.
So in a nutshell Linux may never be as popular as windows or for all you know it may surpass it in popularity, but the reason you have stated is not valid. - NoTiG, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13I never saw this poll and I use linux. I think the desktop usage is underestimated
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12That's nothing. The population of elephants has doubled in the last 6 months!
- whodathunk, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14But.... I keep hearing people say that Linux is not ready for the desktop...
'they' must know more than desktop linux users do... - Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11what are you
A mutant
Because you must have a crapload of fingers and toes - CYR1X, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Who else is going to take the desktop linux poll on desktoplinux.com?
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7jdhore1, the basic flaw in your premise is that DavidBGie would actually be able to find a girlfriend or wife...well, or even find a person of the opposite sex to sleep with.
- Darcy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7OK, that's enough. This joke stopped being funny after the second commenter made it.
- DigeratiMVP, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12Its very ready for the desktop. I converted a freind 3 weeks ago to ubuntu just by letting im test drive the live run cd. He was soo tired of his XPS dell with XP on it not doing simple things that it should, and he was sold on ubuntu, scrubbed windows and it was on, and he has been happy.
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I be loving me some bury button.
- Darcy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6ah ah ahh, ooh ooh ooh, ah ah, brilliant! absolutely brilliant! I wonder why no one else thought of that joke?
- gorndog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Given that the 2006 survey never made the front page of Digg, I'm actually suprised participation in the poll was only about double that of the previous year.
Here are the posts about the 2006 Poll on Digg:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/What_Linux_desktop_do_you_use (47 Votes)
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Vote_in_the_2006_Desktop_Linux_Survey (47 votes)
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Desktop_Linux_survey_launches (13 votes)
Ubuntu alone has betwen 6 million and 12 million users, according to Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth (July 2007). Yes, that is a fraction of the Windows installed base of nearly 1 billion, but ten million of anything is enough to pay attention to. - rhylan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Cheers everyone! All that talk about a helpful linux community was right after all! :D
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Forks mean competition and also they mean an eating utensil but thats not the point (accidental pun)
Competition means better stuff now
Forks can be a good thing
if It means competition in the Linux market
then Companies will go with the best
and eventually you will have 2-4 good Linux distros supported on Pcs
and not close to a million - melve, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I'm not sure what you mean by "all these different forks." Forks occasionally happen, but usually when there is a significant number of people who are dissatisfied with the direction of a project. And this usually leads to better software. A perfect example is when the Xserver forked from XFree86 a few years ago. That project had stagnated, so the Xorg people forked, and now we're seeing tons of improvements to that project (e.g. compositing support that allowed compiz fusion to be created).
- mbradbury, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7mplayer plug-in will let you watch stage6
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7so can I get that ivory flashlight I've always wanted now?
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Like doing something he loves and getting people involved in it aka
a hobby - Stonekeeper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Your baseless rants just got you ont my blocked list. GRATZ!
- krinn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Because the 'Other' category includes Windows 98/ME, which is down significantly.
- trogdoor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Go to Applications -> Add/Remove search for "divx" and check the first box, alternatively for most online videos you can right click the video and choose "Open with Movie Player" and when Totem tries to open the movie its automatic codec installation will kick in and offer to install the right codec for you.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I guess that depends on the circumstances
but prior versions of windows sucked in stableness - dsn0wman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I am not sure how anyone could accurately count the number of Linux users. But then again I like the headline so I guess it's up to some Windows guy to disprove it. ;-)
- brundlefly76, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5The survey wasnt controlled at all - it was just a frontpage web survey, and they even mention how this year the survey got dugg.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Sure that the Linux users are so much more now than what they were before but I don't think that the DesktopLinux.com's survey is accurate.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I use slackware on my main machine and ubuntu on my laptop, I've been a linux user for over 2 years now, and let me tell you, aside from specific development for the platform, I do all my little things on linux, perl, php just to name a couple, its just so much easier... I do dual boot on both to windows to get the best of both worlds though. But don't speak of convenience or speed of windows when compared to linux, all windows can do for me is play games natively and run visual studio, everything else linux does better.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4does that mean Jack0Neill
has more then 12 million fingers and toes - borninda818, on 10/10/2007, -8/+11Explains why teenagers aren't having sex anymore.
- jdhore1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Linux developers are not lazy. Would YOU be able to balance a job, a life (wife, gf, whatever) AND an application that you're not getting paid to work on? I know i wouldn't. Apple got their ***** done for 2 reasons: 1. They had hundreds of people being paid to work 8 hours a day working on OS X...There's not nearly that much manpower for linux.
2. They didn't have to really worry about only having 10 people working on 1 subsystem, 200 working on another, etc like Linux does. With OS X, if the kernel guys were falling behind, the manager could just tell a few guys to go over and work on the kernel for a bit...Can't do that in linux.
I think with the limited amount of resources Linux has, it's doing damn good. If the major devs were paid for their Linux work (they could make it their full-time job), Linux would be as good, if not better than OS X. - malkiholic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Shut up, troll.
- CoastalEddy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6I made the leap to FC (currently FC7) 4 years ago and would never consider going back. The only time I need use Windows is to cross-browser test on IE.
But I've never been 'polled'. Who knows what the stats are? - Salgat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446
Use that and for the divx tab, check it and add xine to it. - ldog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You don't even need windows for that cross-browser testing.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
ies4linux will let you run IE5,5.5,&6 at the same time or you linux machine. - trogdoor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Like I responded earlier, ( using this amazing "reply" feature I have been hearing about ) it is *much* simpler than that:
"Go to Applications -> Add/Remove search for "divx" and check the first box, alternatively for most online videos you can right click the video and choose "Open with Movie Player" and when Totem tries to open the movie its automatic codec installation will kick in and offer to install the right codec for you." - Jack0Neill, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/1824/linuxgeekqi3.jpg
Says it all. - krinn, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Linux use is up in other surveys also. I don't think it's inaccurate.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5&qpcustom=Linux - c0ldfusi0n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I agree with all the "Bury as Inaccurate" comments. However, i am pretty damn sure that Ubuntu (as much as diggers love to hate it) contributed to a great increase in Linux desktop usage, and that's one thing no one needs a survey to prove.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I saw this article earlier and chose not to submit it.
- oldgeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I would say that 60% of my customers have asked me if there's something else other than windows. It all started when new computers came out with Vista installed. I say Vista has done more for getting linux installed than anything. When I tell them it's free and they can make copies and give to friends, it's the best selling point of all.
- pcghost, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I'm sorry, but despite being the Linux fanatic that I surely am, that was still funny.
- tulsapoke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hey thanks for the tip about that TVlinks site. That site is kickass. Welcome to Ubuntu!
- init100, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Correct. I just checked, and the mplayer plugin was used to view the movie.
- trogdoor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's not.
- kingmoffa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2think you forgot the million. 5 to 10 million perhaps.
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