5 ms·
I think a bigger story from these statistics is the rise in Linux: "while Linux gained 0.17 percentage points (to 1.73 percent)" Going from 1.56% to 1.73% is a
by tristanperry 13y ago
I think a bigger story from these statistics is the rise in Linux: "while Linux gained 0.17 percentage points (to 1.73 percent)"
Going from 1.56% to 1.73% is an ~11% increase, which is a pretty large rise (albeit from a smaller base)
Meanwhile, XP's "huge" drop was 7%. Which is a fair drop, but I wouldn't call it huge.
Seeing this rise in Linux is promising.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- roel_v 13y agoWhat's this, 2002? Is 2014 really going to be the Year Of Linux On The Desktop?
- TorKlingberg 13y agoIs it necessary to be snarky like this in every thread that mentions Linux?
- roel_v 13y agoWell I guess it depends on what threshold you set for 'necessary', but man I've been hearing this nonsense since 1999 - actually I preached it myself back then. And just like former smokers are the most obnoxious anti-smoking crusaders, every time I see a comment like the GP I roll my eyes and feel the need to warn others to not fall into the same cult-like thinking I did back then.
- jol 13y agobecause of network effects that will kick in when Linux finally reaches market share that has to be respected (I expect that to be somewhere close to 10 %), this is much more important. And now when Steam came to linux, that can be kickstarted, thus never say never :)
- simonh 13y agoLinux has something like 60% of the mobile market already. I'm perfectly serious, the cognitive dissonance that fact causes in Linux desktop enthusiasts is very revealing. If 'Linux' ever gets anywhere on the desktop, it will be one 'distro' (I prefer to call them Operating Systems) running one desktop environment with one primary application development framework that does so. That's because that fact that Linux has anything to do with Android, or FirefoxOS, or Ubuntu Mobile is basically irrelevant. What actually matters is the UI layer and the development framework. That's why the fragmentation in Linux distros has killed any chance of Linux taking over the desktop. It's because the things that actually matter - desktop frameworks and development environments - are where the main fragmentation lies. For desktop dominance it's that desktop layer that has to be as unified, robust and compatible as possible.
- ConceptJunkie 13y agoHere's what keeps Linux off the desktop for most users: the monopoly known as Microsoft Office. Oh, and games. Definitely games.
- Theodores 13y agoThere is no rise in Linux adoption unless you count ChromeOS. I use Linux on the desktop but it has been a while since I have seen or heard of anyone making the move to Ubuntu or anything else install-yourself on the desktop. However I do know of lots of happy Chromebook users. There is no headline story here as far as Linux is concerned. As I see it there is a very slow replacement rate for regular PC's - 10% market share in over a year looks to me like only 11% of PC's have been replaced in the last year. Given PC's are supposed to have an average lifespan of 5-7 years that means Windows really is not selling very well.
- blahbl4hblahtoo 13y agoTo be fair Android is doing very well.
- Beliavsky 13y agoPC's with 2-3 terabyte hard drives and 8+ GB of RAM are not that expensive, and download speeds are fast with broadband, which allows "excess" resources to be used to obtain and install a Linux iso within Windows using VirtualBox. So it's become a lot easier to experiment with Linux. I like Linux Mint.
- Theodores 13y agohttp://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F027q8xw http://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F027q8xw