Linux on the Desktop Doubles in 2007

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 7, 2007 @01:03AM from the double-your-pleasure-double-your-segfault dept.

00_NOP writes "According to a report on Softpedia, citing Net Applications, Linux usage on the desktop doubled in 2006 — 07: though from a miserable 0.37% to a still not brilliant 0.81%. Given that Linux is free, is based on peer reviewed source (and so inherently more secure in the longer term) and that hardware support is now pretty good, how long are we going to have to wait for the big breakthrough?" Of course the focus of the article is that Vista is kicking butt over Mac/Linux, which is not particularly surprising.

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Re:This is the year of Linux on the desktop .. by smallfries · 2007-10-07 03:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Congratulations. You've just won the slashdot fuckwit of the year award. You've pulled out a quote from a different part of the article talking about a different statistic. If you actually read the thread that you were replying to then you would know that everyone apart from you was talking about the year-on-year increase from 0.37% to 0.81%.

So, are you joining the editorial team?

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