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Linux Outpacing Macintosh On Desktops

Posted by timothy on from the lies-darn-lies-and-asterics dept.

An anonymous reader points out this article in the International Herald Tribune about corporate acceptance of computers running GNU/Linux, which includes this snippet: "Linux is already outpacing Macintosh on desktops: "Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst for International Data Corp., said Linux had a 3.9 percent share of desktops worldwide, outpacing Macintosh's 3.1 percent." The article does not specify from where Kuznetsky draws either figure, but can it be true that Linux systems currently outnumber Macintoshes?

3 of 704 comments (clear)

  1. In all honesty... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...does it matter? Linux, Max OS X, Solaris, any of it?

    I'm running whatever Ellen Feiss tells me to.

  2. Wisdom from Homer Simpson... by mackertm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.

  3. Re:Lets look at some real data... by Paul+Komarek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google is almost certainly *not* the best place to get this sort of data. The population that uses google is almost certainly not representative of the large population of computer users. And how do they count the accesses? Per access or per "machine"?

    I suspect these numbers indicate that Windows users are generally complete nincompoops that require 91 times as many google searches to get the same data as a GNU/Linux user gets in 1 search. Mac users, bless their souls, rate much higher at 1/4 the intelligence of a GNU/Linux user.

    -Paul Komarek