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Desktop Linux Usage Statistics

Posted by timothy on from the change-is-in-the-air dept.

Ahkorishaan writes "Desktoplinux.com has put up their December 2004 survey results. Debian has fallen from their top rank as preferred Linux distro, and newcomers Thunderbird and Firefox have an impressive showing in their respective genres."

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  1. Debian falls. Well duh. by Neil+Blender · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because desktop linux is making gains in the real world. Desktop linux: "It's not just in your parent's basement anymore."

  2. The problem with linux... by timecop · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you use linux, you participate in a communist scheme designed to prevent
    software professionals from being compensated for their work. So switch back to
    windows xp you scumbags.

    1. Re:The problem with linux... by PocketPick · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ahh, gut, Comrade. Gates, Yah, vee is good thinker, but you see: You do not capitalise on de useful of idiots like da OSS veel. Ve vill crush you!

      Gut! Gut!

    2. Re:The problem with linux... by pcnetworx1 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Ahem, you are on Slashdot buddy, only slamming of Windows is allowed here ;)

    3. Re:The problem with linux... by Frumious+Wombat · · Score: 3, Funny

      I always thought Desktop Linux was a communist plot to get you to spend all of your time tweaking your desktop settings (Because You Can!), rather than doing actual work.

      Now we just have to find out who's plot making Windows users reboot all the time was.

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      the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air. R. S. Mulliken
  3. Re:Debian falls. Well duh. by Teh_monkeyCode · · Score: 2, Funny

    Real World: "Where marketing makes the IT decisions"

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  4. Re:very un-scientific by Xarius · · Score: 5, Funny
    This "study" really, is very unscientific and somewhat disturbing to a statistian like me.


    I don't see what coming from statistia has to do with it. Unless, of course, you mean statistician?
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  5. Re:Linux on the desktop ain't gonna happen until.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    She would get a better deal by marrying someone who is Linux literate. Either that or figure out how to conceive a child and let him/her set up the printer.