When reading my feeds today, I find this excellent news (which personally sweetens me completely this morning: D), which I translated for all of you ...
According to a report, the presence of Linux on the desktop has been on the rise since last summer. The report of NetMarketShare shows that the use of Linux on the desktop increased from a share of 1% in December 2010 to a share of 1.41% in December 2011. Data from NetMarketShare showed that prior to 2010 Linux on the desktop tended to be around the 1%. The uptrend appears to have started in August 2011.
As for Microsoft Windows, the comparison between December 2010 and December 2011 shows a slight decrease from 93.78% to 92.23% and Mac OS X with a slight increase from 5.21% to 6.36%. In the mobile phone market, iOS still holds 52.10% of the market, followed by Java ME with 21.27% and Android with 16.29%.
Here is the graph of these comparisons:
What do you think? Share with us your point of view as to why you think this situation is due 😉
Source: H-Online
Until October 2001, Linux was stable between 0,87 and 1,19%
Where do they get this data from? I am struck by osx because although it is popular in the United States, it is almost non-existent in other parts of the world. And the percentage of iOS also seems a little suspicious to me, but it will be because in my country Android is more popular.
From what I could find it was the following:
The data from Net Applications, which can be consulted on its NetMarketShare service, presents statistics from more than 40.000 websites, which represent around 160 million unique visits per month.
On the contrary, in other parts of the world it is also relatively popular.
In Spain, I have only met two people with mac osx, iphones on the other hand everywhere, that's why the upload seems suspicious to me, but hey.
Well, I think that conquering the desktop is still a utopia, Linux should rather aspire to be that "third option". In any case, it must be said that distributions like Linux Mint and Ubuntu are doing a lot to extend the desktop. Until recently, it seemed unimaginable that certain people would jump into trying Linux, but it seems that many have now lost their fear. This is good news, without a doubt.
It is not about «conquering the desk» friend Josemas; D
The truth is that I do not care if Linux extends or not, and then be like our friends from Hasefroch or something like that, it is better that everything remains as it is
On something I agree: If using Linux does not represent a difference, beyond its technical and nominal aspects, then what difference does it make how many use it? I have always believed that using Linux can mean many different things for each user, but what is valuable is that it is an alternative, a conscious act that renounces dogma and conformism, in any of its forms.
To wish many people to read Nietzsche, Kant, Rulfo, Sabato, Freud, Cortazar, Marx and Engels, de Beauvoir, Dostoevsky, Poe, Villoro, etc. etc., It is not to be bestsellers, but to see the world in a different way.
You have said it better than anyone friend:
[…] To look at the world in a different way […]
I would only add or clarify that: not see the world in another way from the point of view of experience, but rather, from a better way of life 😉
This is what GNU / Linux is all about, how many of us has not changed our lives for the better "Tuxito"? 😀
I agree
By the way, thank you very much for commenting 😉
It's weird, but you also have to take into account the environment, in my environment of friends and acquaintances I see many more Android than Apple phones.
Of course not, I don't think that way. But I've been hearing that Linux should reach all desktops since I started using it, back in 97 (look at it rained, hehe). Back then, with the staff installing Redhat 4.1, it was said that it was "going to take over the world" and "let Windows shake." I still remember when I had to compile GNOME 0.2 to be able to use it as a desktop 😉 Anyway, looking at distributions like Linux Mint it is evident that a lot has been achieved since then, we cannot complain too much.
In any case, it seems that Linux has reached the user, but through the back door with Android. Sure, that's Linux, but little GNU ...
A greeting.
Huuu, at that time I was playing Mario bros all day 😀
Not long ago a friend had her notebook stolen, and until I bought a new one I revived a pc to which xp had put it in check, putting Ubuntu on it, I was fascinated with unity, the only problem is in adobe flash, the little machine It does not have a video card and it cannot hold it well, this I think is a simple example of why there are more and more PCs with Linux, Microsoft always carries out updates that slow down the system or systems that demand more resources, as the machines go being obsolete, linux arises as the only option, in addition to that currently it is much simpler
Well, weird, today XP (updated) is much lighter than Ubuntu (the most updated with Unity and I don't even want to imagine what it comes with (HUD for example).
I think it depends a lot on the machine, I cleaned the xp with ccleaner, in addition to defragmenting it, and all the maintenance that is done (a full day denying with xp, I switched to linux so as not to have to go through these things anymore, But in short, before it loaded in 10 minutes, after maintenance now it loads in 2). Ubuntu took out banshee for clementine, gbrainy and mono dependencies, and with that unity 2d is much more fluid, it is loading in 30 sec and consumes 325 mb of ram if in the future it needs to get heavy with the resources, I put xubuntu and I will spend one more time
Old laptops of people in crisis
advised by wise friends
they go to Linux
improving performance
even to new machines with MS Windows OS.
This plus government migrations of desktops on older computers to Linux for the same reasons.
I am using mint12 with Mate, when I use chakra it detects it, and I see other mints detected - I have installed several desktops * ubuntu-desktop in case that was decisive.
You have to modify the UserAgent
In my opinion I think the osX and Linux numbers are too low for what I see in my environment. Undoubtedly what pulls more in the statistics are the companies that continue to use a lot of Windows.
I'm going to make it very easy. How many people in China do you think use mac osx?
Well, I already said it all xd
Well, like everywhere, graphic designers and the four pringaos who want to feel cool and different
Not like this either. I know more than one person who bought a Mac, simply because someone else told him that it was the best ... and voila, he bought it.
Well, that is pringaos, it was also what I did in his day with the Mac of the balls
Whenever this type of data comes out, I would like to know the methodology used, the sample or indexed population and the statistical design used, but it never appears.
regards
I think it's something like that
A: linux users = 1%
B: linux users who install ubuntu to their friends + companies and governments who want to save licenses = 0.41%
A + B = 1.41%…. And growing