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I guess this either means that you either think that those 85% are running Android on their desktop computers, or that you have a different idea of what a "desk
by boomlinde 12y ago
I guess this either means that you either think that those 85% are running Android on their desktop computers, or that you have a different idea of what a "desktop system" is than anyone else. Android isn't a desktop system except for a select few masochists.
Personally, I want my desktop system to be a real power horse, and despite being built on top of GNU/Linux, Android doesn't seem like a particularly open environment and it obviously wasn't developed with desktop users in mind.
- hawski 12y agoIt's not built on top of GNU/Linux, but on top of Linux. If you count using GCC and binutils as GNU part then we should start calling things Intel/Linux if someone uses ICC and other funny things.
- boomlinde 12y agoThanks, I didn't know that it didn't have GNU user space programs.
- progman 12y agoI guess with "desktop system" you actually mean PC desktops. In my definition a desktop system is a system on a desktop. In the past decades this meant PCs but in the last couple of years many users chose tablets as their favorite desktops. They just replaced their PC desktops by mobile desktops for gaming, surfing and emails. On the PC desktop world Windows is still leading with Win7 and XP, followed by OSX, followed by Linux and others. Linux won't get leadership here but who cares? Linux is a very good PC desktop system anyway, absolutely competitive to Win 7.
- boomlinde 12y agoOK, since your definition seems remove every aspect of "desktop system" that makes it a meaningful distinction, we'll just have to agree to disagree here. As for linux on PC desktop, competitive in what sense? I prefer a good Linux based OS over Windows any day, but in terms of market share, it's just a ridiculous thing to say.