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Linux Marketshare is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row (omgubuntu.co.uk)
For the third month in a row the share of worldwide desktop computer users running Linux has been above two percent -- up from one percent -- according to data from web analytics company Net Market Share. From a OMGUbuntu report: We reported back in July that Linux marketshare had passed two percent for the first time, and that figure remains the highest they've ever reported for Linux, at 2.33 percent. But the share for September 2016 was almost as good at 2.23 percent. It's the third consecutive month that Linux marketshare has been above 2 percent. Those of us who use Linux as our primary desktop computing platform can take a degree of pride in these figures. They do show a clear trend towards Linux, rather than away from it. But we should also remember that statistics, numbers and reporting methods vary between analytics companies and that all figures, however positive, remain open to interpretation and debate.
Or will it be 2017?
It wouldn't surprise me if this trend continues, as Microsoft doesn't care as much about Windows anymore, and Apple has gone kind of crazy.
When Microsoft releases Excel for Linux, you'll know that its time has arrived.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
This isn't suprising...I'm using Linux right now and it has been rock solid sta
Compared to a few years ago, Linux and the distros are more user friendly, more hardware support (less missing drivers), lots of free software, and many "main" applications have been improved a lot (think Gimp, Libre Office, wine...) . That gives a chance to users to try Linux and see for themselves that it's fast, reliable and has a lot of good open source software. Unfortunately for many demanding games, Windows is still the only alternative.
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Some of it is cost. Windows + Office is EXPENSIVE. Since digital computers aren't increasing in power much, and won't ever be now that Moores Law is dead, now is the time for Linux to "catch up".
, and no real UI improvements or new features.
Which is exactly the point. Those 'improvements' are to many just an unnecessary complication. The UI of W2K was fine, WinXp could be set to look like it it.
I've put some family members on Ubuntu Mate. They love, they just use the computer for internet. The UI is more familiar than Windows 10, it doesn't get slower over time and there is a lot less worry for them for malware.
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I think pirates figure in it somewhere.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It will continue, though very slowly. People don't mind paying directly or indirectly for an OS and they don't mind whether it's open source or not, but many people don't want to be patronized and want to be able to run whatever software whenever they want. That's why some of them are slowly turning to Linux.
Windows 10 is pretty terrible. Really.
Apple only seems to care about the iPhone anymore. The iFad is over and iMac and Macbooks are getting ever more difficult to fix/upgrade/pay for.
Oh...and everything runs in a browser now...so the OS doesn't really matter anymore. So people can put Ubuntu/Mint on their older hardware and watch is come back to life again.
Chromebooks?
Ever single child in my daughter's school was assigned one at the beginning of the year. And we're a public school in the boonies of Pennsylvania, not some preppy private school
I am trying to figure out what the driving forces are.
Gnome 2 has finally become stable, in the Mate incarnation.
More likely, Steam and similar have modified the market somewhat, combined with Windows 10 being such a fustercluck that people look elsewhere.
Anyhow, the title is misleading as it doesn't qualify it to desktops. Linux marketshare for servers and Linux marketshare for mobile devices are certainly much higher than that.
They called it Linux instead of GNU/Linux! Stallman's gonna lose his shit again.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Maybe they will release an update of Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux!
While Windows 10 has been pushed into many computers accidentally on purpose, to many of us, Windows 10 was the final straw for our personal machines. While the awful privacy invasions and security issues of the new OS aren't anywhere close enough to force all, most, or frankly even many users to flee, plenty of Windows users are looking for an out- and those that have use cases that are compatible with Linux have moved (and in smaller numbers are still moving) for that reason.
So I think we are seeing a Windows 10 bump. Certainly Linux desktop is vastly superior to where it was a few years ago, but that's not normally the sort of thing that pushes for a change. We'll probably see it again in a couple years when Microsoft tightens its coils some more- hopefully the desktop Linux experience will be even better then!
It basically boils down to neither Microsoft nor Apple providing a decent value proposition anymore.
Microsoft is doing everything they can to make people despise Windows 10, and while I like OSX just fine, it's as if Apple has completely lost it WRT hardware.
So you have a choice between using Microsoft Mediocre Crap or Apple Expensive Crap. Having been an Apple user for well over a decade, I'm thinking that my next machine will have to be a Dell XPS /w Ubuntu.
Apparently you missed the part where the summary said "Desktop computer users".
Talk about timing, I'm installing Linux as we speak (Ubuntu). I'm surfing slashdot on my phone while I wait.
I could easily reiterate what others have said, but one thing I have not heard mention of... Myself and many of my colleagues run Linux on our desktops because it is a geek move. Let's face it, as engineers, we are all trying to out-geek each other. Running Arch Linux with an esoteric desktop environment like Enlightenment at your desk adds several points to one's geek factor.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Yeah, let's look at Linux market share in:
- smart phones
- set-top boxes and DVRs
- point-of-sale terminals
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and no real UI improvements or new features.
It varies from DE to DE.
Those 'improvements' are to many just an unnecessary complication. The UI of W2K was fine
Actually, these improvements are not so much complications as they are an act of war against users. Every time I accidentally open the (a-parrot-exploded theme) Paint on Windows 8 I spend half a minute trying to close it.
I miss W2K...
Reading summaries is hard :)
Governments are by far the biggest procurers of operating systems. There's an EU draft directive that says that member states must favour free and open source IT solutions. So far, the various flavours of Ubuntu have been the favoured option. My bet is that EU governments switching to Ubuntu is mostly responsible for pushing the usage stats up recently.
85% of devices sold last year ran Linux. The desktop is now in your lap and in your pocket, running Linux. Windows is more popular on systems with IDE drives, PalmOS is most popular on Treo systems, Linux is most popular on supercomputers, Windows is most popular on systems that weigh between 8 and 20 pounds. Linux is most popular.
Next story / complaint: Linux isn't popular on systems installed by major corporations headquartered in Redmond. Um, okay, but anyway 85% of all new devices run Linux, period.
Could be higher if the hardware was not sold with a mandatory OS (Windows / Mac OS)
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Huzzah, I say.
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
Windows runs on my work laptop, but it spends 100% of its operational time plugged into monitors on a desktop, with VNC and terminal windows open to boxes running Linux somewhere in a datacenter, where I do my work designing things and writing documents.
So windows is a thin client, back from the early 90s.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
It basically boils down to neither Microsoft nor Apple providing a decent value proposition anymore.
Microsoft is doing everything they can to make people despise Windows 10, and while I like OSX just fine, it's as if Apple has completely lost it WRT hardware.
So you have a choice between using Microsoft Mediocre Crap or Apple Expensive Crap. Having been an Apple user for well over a decade, I'm thinking that my next machine will have to be a Dell XPS /w Ubuntu.
Agreed on the OSX hardware thing - I've been anxiously awaiting for the new MacbookPro's to come out so I could finally get more than 16GB of RAM. Only to find out that Apple decided that 16GB is enough for everyone, so the new MBP has the same limit.
Looks like I'll be shopping around for a Linux laptop with 32 or 64GB of RAM. I'm very happy with OSX, but I also want more than 16GB of memory.
Linux is the peasant behind the scene on everything, including "Desktop Linux"!
Linux has always been a basic OS. While bootable without any additional applications or libraries it is not very functional. At the very least you will add a libc implementation and from there many other libraries, applications and possibly window managers to have a usable user interface. I agree that Android is not GNU/Linux (probably the most common form of CLI/GUI "Desktop Linux"), but in GNU/Linux, Linux is still the peasant behind the scene.
Linux is not *BSD/Windows/etc where the development team creates a whole package from the kernel up to the user interface, it is just the core, the "peasant" doing the hard work of managing system memory, networking and disc io, etc. Unless you are doing system development, or very low level application development, as a programmer you probably would almost never interact directly with Linux.
Yes, the media has turned Linux into a complete OS, but that has nothing to do with the actual Linux software and what it does. The media just did not like saying GNU/Linux which is generally what they were referring with when they would say Linux...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Linux" can refer to the complete operating system or just the kernel. Linus Torvalds does so, other leading community people do so, various leading linux web sites and magazines do so, etc. The context is clear from the discussion. For example this article discussing desktop linux would indicate the context is the complete operating system and not the merely the kernel.
(c) You want a screen at least a large as a 1948 television set.
(d) You want a keyboard that lets you actually type, as opposed to the experience of poking at a keyboard with a stick attached to your nose.
For many years I spent all my time in "terminal windows open to boxes running Linux". When work gave me a Mac OSX machine, I was surprised how much it was like Linux. The GUI is different, of course, but open a terminal and you have certified Unix. You can ./configure && make && make install whatever you might run on Linux. If your place of employment offers the choice on Windows or Mac, you might like the Mac - even though it's from the same company that makes iOS iTrinkets.
Bearing in mind that what is being pushed in the Linux desktop, namely, Gnome, KDE and Unity, are big pieces of turd that insist in being the stars of the show, in telling you what it is that you can and can't do, and how to do it, it is nothing short of amazing that Linux has a 2% market share. On second thought, it isn't.
The answer: Isolation from the Host VM.
If/when the Windows VM gets infected, it can be isolated completely and replaced on demand.
I've been using LibreOffice for years and do some statistical analyses on it. I've never had a wrong answer or anything out of the ordinary where the problem didn't originate between the keyboard and the chair.
BTW, the Zotero https://www.zotero.org/ plugin for LibreOffice works much better in LibreOffice Writer than in MS Word.
Actually, these improvements are not so much complications as they are an act of war against users.
So Windows users will find Gnome3 just at home.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Right now I develop mostly for Linux. Yet my development desktop is Visual Studio running on windows 10. I know a few developers who use Linux desktop, but the reality is that it would be under 5% of the developers who I know developing on Linux use linux for their desktop.
Quite simply without Desktop penetration this percentage will always stay low. I don't see this as a problem. Linux to me is a server solution, an embedded solution, a phone solution, but not yet a desktop solution. I suspect that if it were to become a desktop solution that all the other uses would get short shrift. The entire Kernel would have huge pressure to adapt primarily to the needs of the desktop.
Luckily the PC is dying. While servers VM, embedded, and mobile devices are taking off. Drones and robots are also getting to be a thing. This is where Linux rocks. I am happy to have a tool for these things that is so awesome.
So, please linux, don't try to capture the other 98% or you will probably let me down and I will have to find something else.
I have built complete Android images from the source, and I can assure you, Android is indeed a Linux based OS. It has a Linux kernel and GNU user space tools. So please stop spreading misinformation. Thanks.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Windows is only cheap if your time is worth nothing!
The most common "Desktop Linux" is probably Chrome OS.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
You are an idiot. Android runs on Linux. All Android phones boot a Linux kernel. Stop misinforming people, and off you go now ...
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
then the user must use Linux to play the blue ray, like described over the net.
Which licensed BDMV player does the net recommend? Google linux bdmv player found this six-year-old post which is a reverse engineered player that's "a far shot from proper native support for blu-ray playback" and likely illegal in my country. It also turned up a page last updated in 2016 stating that "no official Blu-ray player software is available on their system". In particular, free software is on MKB v28 while new movies are on MKB v57.
You are aware that lots (and I mean lots as in every single one) site provides a shopping cart, aren't you?
I'm not referring to the buyer's user interface. I'm referring to the seller's user interface to validate a list of products that the seller is uploading to the online sales platform.
It's 2016. We got Chromecast and Bluetooth keyboards & mouses.
How many people have you seen actually carrying around a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to use with a smartphone in situations where a laptop has traditionally excelled, such as writing and editing long-form text with markup? And for the use case of taking notes about a web page or other document you're reading, how easy is it under stock versions of the popular smartphone operating systems to make both the document and your notes visible on the screen? Android has had tiling window management since Android 7.0 "Nougat", and Samsung has long had the manufacturer-specific tiling window manager that it introduced with Galaxy Note, but Nougat has yet to become widespread on existing devices or even on devices still sold new to the public.
People code applications for Linux
Or they don't because they see more money in making an application for Windows and not Linux than for Linux and not Windows, or even than for both Windows and Linux due to "support cost issues".
and if they're good the distributions include them (what's one more in 50,000+?).
The distributions tend to include only software under a free software license. The economics of games with professional production values, licensed players for major studio movies, and income tax return preparation software sort of rule out a timely release as free software for reasons I've described in this article.
Good luck running a binary for GTK for Windows or Qt for Windows on anything but Windows.
You realize those platforms came from Linux, rigtht?
Even if an application developer uses a platform that came from Linux, the fact that the platform came from Linux is no help to an end user if the developer chooses to publish only a Windows binary because of "support cost issues".
You are a complete idiot. Any Android phone can run any Linux application. All you need is a cross compiler (maybe you've heard of GCC, but it doesn't seem like it based on your already demonstrated lack of understanding) and some skills to build from the source. Android is essentially window manager and a Java (mostly) framework. You clearly are not an embedded software developer, so you are just going to have to take the word of those who actually understand. KDE is not Linux, yet many distributions use it to provide a UX. Others use Gnome. Nothing but lack of skill stops you from building Android to run natively on your home PC that already has Linux installed. Off you go now ...
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
You are a fucking idiot. Off you go now ...
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
> [The proprietary iOS platform is popular] Only in a few countries (most English-speaking plus Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan)
And guess where the market for an English-speaking developer is located.
> I don't know how many variants of that falling pieces game exist -- yet none uses the audio theme, visuals or the name "Tetris".
It was ruled that the copyright applies to the use of the set of the seven pieces that can be made from four square blocks. A game using differently shaped pieces would not infringe but would also not allow anywhere near the same tactics. A sports analogy would be the NFL having exclusive rights to the oblong ball used in gridiron football and trying to use that against USFL and XFL.
> Microsoft and Apple know a thing or two about [setting up an overseas subsidiary]
They're big enough to afford consultants for multinational expansion. I don't see how micro-ISVs can afford the same.
> https://tunesgo.wondershare.co...
Part 1 applies only to Samsung tablet owners. With both Galaxy Note 7 phones and more recently the company's washing machines exploding, I imagine that a lot of people have crossed that company off their short list.
As for part 2, most appear to be launchers, one requires root, one is just a file manager with its own quasi-MDI controls, and the most promising (Multi Screen) unfortunately lacks any sort of APK or Play Store link.
> http://www.howtogeek.com/18934...
That's about Xposed, which requires root. Now that Nexus products have been discontinued, which is the go-to rootable 9 to 10 inch Android tablet?
> http://www.pcmag.com/news/3436...
Available exclusively for Nexus 9 and Nexus 10. All Nexus products have since been discontinued. Or is the feature worth tracking down a used tablet?
> since some years ago I haven't care anymore about local storage. The main reason being I carry my important contents in usb drives
And guess what tablets can't always mount. I had a Nexus 7 (2012) tablet and an OTG cable, and it failed to do anything when I plugged in a flash drive.
> It's already possible to do a lot of tasks with Android.
Is lightweight hobby software development among them?