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Debunking Linux-Windows Market Share Myths
bc90021 writes "Nicholas Petreley has a great article over at LinuxWorld explaining why it seems that Windows has such a high market share when 40% of developers are focusing on Linux. From the summary: "There are dozens of reasons why people have underestimated how quickly Linux has been grabbing Windows' market share. Windows starts out with a false boost and maintains its illusory market share even as it gets replaced by Linux. In 2004, don't be surprised when Linux overtakes Windows to become the main focus for developers.""
50% of the Linux developers at my firm use Windows as the desktop. The other half (me) use Linux :)
Is that statistic meaningful?
The answer is a resounding NO.
"95.7% of statistics are meaningless."
And 50% of them are made up.
Erm, better make that "two"... ;-)
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Hey, you just made that up!
The real figure is 83.04% of statistics are made up, of course!
And quite honestly if your computer already comes with XP on it, there is no point to downgrade to a Linux distro.
Quite right, but there are some fairly compelling reasons to upgrade to one.
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.
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Uptime is overrated. I reboot XP every 4-6 months, and it takes about 45 seconds total. Once you put 2 and 2 together, you will realize that your 24/7/365 uptime obscession directly correlates to your glum sexual prospects.