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Linux Users Donate Twice As Much As Windows Users, On Average

Posted by Soulskill on from the interesting-data-points dept.

sammyF70 writes "The Wolfire/Humble Indie Bundle real time statistics have been updated to show the average amount donated per platform. It looks like Linux users donate twice as much, on average, as Windows users. You can see some graphs on the Wolfire blog."

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  1. Hi, I'm a Linux by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    PC: And I'm a PC

    Linux: Whatcha doing, PC?

    PC: Playing games.

    Linux: Cool, which ones?

    PC: All of them.

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    1. Re:Hi, I'm a Linux by xlsior · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or more typical:


      Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac

      PC: And I'm a PC

      Mac: Whatcha doing, PC?

      PC: Playing games.

      Mac: Cool, can I play too?

      PC: No.

    2. Re:Hi, I'm a Linux by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Funny

      PC: "I've got a date with a hot chick tonight! We're going clubbing, what about you, Steve?"

      Mac: "I've got a date with a hot guy tonight. We're going to see Rent."

      PC: "Steve, you ol' tiger, you! What about you, Poindexter?"

      Linux: "Aww..."

  2. Re:Define major by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA: "...select games that support all three major desktop platforms: Mac, Windows, and Linux"

    That's adorable.

    Yeah, it's funny that they mentioned Mac/Windows at all. I mean, honestly, who uses those?

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  3. Re:Bah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your personal, single, anecdotal experince obviously completely shatters the average of 59955 sales. Really? Why do you think anyone would care about individual peak values. It's the total income that matters, nothing else, when selling software.

  4. A: Because it breaks the flow of a message by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Funny

    Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly rude?

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  5. Re:Hi, I'm a Virtual Machine. by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    spun: Hi, I'm a spun
    Anonymous Coward: And I'm an AC. Say, spun, whatcha doing?
    spun: Making a joke
    Anonymous Coward: Cool, can I make one?
    spun: Evidently not.

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  6. Seriously by justinlee37 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I use Windows Vista and earlier today I got a virus while looking for porn torrents. The virus disabled taskmanager and the ability to run any other executables and flooded the screen with popups advertising fake virus software. It was easy enough to run HijackThis (after renaming it to iexplore.exe to fool the virus) to identify and delete the viral executable; I had the problem fixed in under 30 minutes.

    Windows isn't that bad when you actually know what you're doing. Problem is, most people don't. Do you think those people would do any better on Linux? I doubt it.

  7. Seeing as by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ubuntu has about twice the share of all other linux based desktops, combined, it would be nice to give it its own statistical category like mac. You don't just throw mac and 'linux' together as 'unix'. I'm tired of developers thinking they have to target multiple linux desktops with their coding and packaging. If you put out one single file, it should be a .deb.

  8. No seriously by TheVelvetFlamebait · · Score: 3, Funny

    why is it rude?

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