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Nobody thinks linux has beaten windows
by buboard 8y ago
Nobody thinks linux has beaten windows
- berbec 8y agoBy sheer install base, it certainly has. Compare Linux servers + android and windows definately loses. Android at 2.7B vs windows at 1.4b (1) 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_sys...
- belltaco 8y agoIt's funny how Android is considered to be Linux when comparing marketshare, but talk about malware stats, and suddenly Android is not Linux.
- godman_8 8y agoIt's a poor implementation of Linux that's for sure, but Linux nonetheless. Some like to call it Android/Linux to distinguish it from GNU/Linux.
- buboard 8y agothat doesnt mean it has 'beaten windows', i.e. people did not uninstall windows to replace it with desktop linux. Windows was never in android phones, and not too deeply into servers.
- ergothus 8y agoAt the time in question, NT Server was a real threat. Commercial unixes were expensive to get and worse to maintain. NT Server was (by most accounts) TERRIBLE, yet as servers became more mainstream, NT Server (and IIS) became more common because alternatives weren't considered viable. Heck, even Linux success was often contrary to the expectations from above. Plenty of articles in the 90s covered how techies would install Linux in secret because had it been known they'd have been told to use NT. Meanwhile, on the desktop Microsoft literally invested in Apple to prop up the idea that they had competition. Had Microsoft not done so, and they likely would not have had they not been afraid of antiitrust concerns, would Apple have survived to become the behemoth it is today? Does anyone think that NeXtStep, however nice their work, would have been even a speed bump to MS?