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.""

Comments

Re:Who cares about developers ?

[blahlemon]

After that, windows (which is just an overpriced game OS) will have very little left to offer the user.

Windows over priced? Lies my friend, lies!

I've never paid a cent for it!

Re:Wrong, very wrong

[diablobynight]

Only Once, and it was while running "The Playa" I now just use Media Player 9 for everything, looks great and never crashes, there is something wrong with "The Playa".

Re:Wrong, very wrong

[diablobynight]

Ummm....your comparing a machine that you hand loaded an OS onto, to a machine that you bought from HP, with a preinstalled OS. Duh...Is this complicated to understand, Dell and HP don't know what their doing, and how huch crap have you loaded onto your wifes Desktop compared to what your running on your linux boxes. The fact that you even run an Emachine goes to show that your idea of quality is highly skewed. In my post I said, properly configured OS, with properly configured hardware. HP, Dell,... These companies build computers as cheap as they can with as much proprietary on board, bull shit hardware as possible. So of course it was going to be buggy. especially since you were too ignorant to put a fresh build of XP on it when you got the box.

Re:Wrong, very wrong

[diablobynight]

I tried running games like Hitman 2 and Battlefield 1942 on Linux with Wine and they ran significantly choppier than the smoothness I was used to on XP. It actually pissed me off, and I decided no more of that. I really enjoy gaming, and if I am playing a game and a bit of lag causes me to shoot someone in the shoulder as apposed to right between the eyes, I get very pissed off.

yes I am saying your an idiot

[diablobynight]

Yes I am saying your an idiot if you bought an HP computer with a preloaded OS and expected it to operate on the same level as boxes you set up to be servers. I thought this was common knowledge that the prebuilds are shit that add loads of crap that run in your task bar, and clutter your programs list. But even this isn't the problem, it's ussually their proprietary drivers, for their proprietary built in hardware. And I think your an idiot for buying an E-machine, because, I garantee that for what you spend on a new E-machine I can build a machine twice as good. So your dumb for paying money for a piece of crap, even if it was a really cheap piece of crap.