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Linux is free.
Linux applications are free.
So, the question is why is Linux still sitting at below 1 percent of the
desktop market?
Something that is free is used by so little of the population?
People would rather spend big bucks for Vista or even more expensive switch
to Mac, like a lot are doing, rather than run free Linux?
Something is seriously wrong with Linux....
Here is yet ANOTHER article, offering the same, or similar numbers that
other sites have been reporting, including the BBC....
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2179comments
*******From the Article***************************
While I was trawling through Net Applications operating system share trend
data for the past 24 months, something struck me. June 08 market a big
month for Linux because the OS saw the largest increase in market share for
the whole 2 year period - a growth of 0.12%.
What we?re seeing from the Net Applications data is that over the 24 month
period Linux has seem a growth of its market share of 0.36%, but if you
look at the past 12 months you see a growth of 0.37% which tells us that
Linux growth for the first year of the 2-year period we?re looking at here
had flat-lined.
0.12% growth in a month is a is a lot for Linux, but when compared to the
Vista, XP and Mac OS X it?s nothing, not even a drop in the ocean. But
Linux is still out there, still being updated and still chasing that
magical 1% mark. When is Linux likely to hit that mark? Well, it could be
in the next few months or it could be a year or so away, depending on how
you draw the trendlines.
Given all the Linux hype that we?ve seen over the past few months (Dell
selling Linux-powered systems, several Ubuntu releases, Eee PCs selling by
the shipload) I?m more than a little surprised to find Linux still more
than an arm?s reach away from 1%.
When I look over at Linux from my position on the OS sidelines, I have to
acknowledge that the development communities behind the Linux kernel, the
desktops, applications, and the individual distros have done some good work
over the past couple of years. But on the other hand, almost all of the
issues that I raised back in November of 2006 (?The world just isn?t ready
for Linux? and ?Why Linux will never go mainstream on the desktop?) still
plague Linux when it comes to its adoption by mainstream consumers (Yes,
yes, I know, there are going to be a lot of Linux die-hards who will be up
in my grill for saying that, but I will point at the current market share -
0.8% - as evidence which suggests that I am right.). Linux is a great niche
OS, but that doesn?t lead to a commanding market share. Looking at Ubuntu?s
roadmap for 8.10 I think that it?s becoming apparent (to Canonical at
least) given how heavily the release will focus on a niche market - the
subnotebooks.
Coincidentally, my Linux usage pretty much falls into the niche category.
I?m happy to put Linux to work in duties such as NAS, file server and maybe
loading it onto an old notebook, but the idea of replacing Windows on the
desktop with a Linux distro - well I won?t say that will never happen, but
right now the day I do that is a looooooooong way off. And even for duties
such as acting as an OS for a NAS box, I know that it would have been far
less hassle to have either used Windows as the OS or bought a ready-made
NAS system - for me Linux falls into that ?science experiment? category and
I?ve learned to identify anyone who tells me that Linux is ?easy? as either
deluded, has bought into the superstition, or is a liar. And don?t try to
fool me with that old ?well, every new OS comes with a learning curve?
nonsense - the Mac OS is proof that an OS can be powerful yet easy to use.
Seriously folks, no one should have to waste time Googling just to figure
out how to install an application.
********************End of article**************************
Notice on the blog that the Linux zealots are out in force defending their
mother Linux.
Good for them.
Unfortunately the numbers speak for themselves and the numbers say, Linux
is a stinker.....
Thanks to Kman for doing the research and posting the original thread..
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
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something is seriously wrong with your brain.
Linux is very good now.. after vista linux use is climbing steadily and
so is MacOSX
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| | | | | "Moshe Goldfarb." stated in post
1xbbmlptdln3i.eyh1adub83rk.dlg@40tude.net on 7/8/08 3:33 PM:
The lack of coherence and polish in the UI matter. OSS tends to have the
tech in the background done well, hence the reason it works so well on
servers, but the front end - while getting better - still has a ways to go.
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Do you ever wake up in a cold sweat wondering what the world would be
like if the Lamarckian view of evolution had ended up being accepted
over Darwin's?
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You seem to have problems with numbers.
Try actually reading the article and looking at the numbers.
If you don't like those numbers, you can always look at the BBC study which
had Linux pegged at 0.8 percent, which I say is artificially high due to
the Linux loons hammering the site at that time begging for support for
some video player.
The BBC ignored them BTW.
As for Mac OSX, yes, it is growing but please don't try and lump it
together with a piece of junk like Linux desktop because it's obvious Linux
is not growing by any significant number.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
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capin' crunch, our
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Hey crunch...still can't get your one little install of Vista to run
properly?
Look, broke, incompetent losers like you is why linux exist!
Try it.
It's all you'll ever need!...LOL!
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You dont seem to know that Linux and MacOSX are both based on UNIX
Have you used Linux? I have used all OS's from Windows to Linux to MACOS
to Solaris, to older ones like the amiga workbench...
linux has become very easy to use.
people are not installing it, not because the OS itself has problems...
but other reasons. Can you try to strain your brain to think for a
moment, and guess what they are?
you bore me and I dont want to get into a long thread - flamewar
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