Android says what?
Linux is power, it has many different uses and many different applications. From being the most popular OS for super computers to being the most popular OS for smartphones. Its on your routers, its in your switches you can even find it in fridges and TV`s. Its everywhere.... and used daily by general computer users. Whether they know it or not.
Ghoti's head is screwed on right.
Windows is not more popular because it is better. It is only widely used because it had no alternatives. First it was DOS, then Windows and now Linux. 70% of ICT hiring nowadays is headhunting Linux professionals. Just a decade ago, Linux was the reserve of the geeks farming with servers. Things are changing fast. Anyone smart enough wanting to secure a career path for his kids should consider exposing them to Linux from an early age, foster their expertise and send them on to become Linux certified. It is just so that the world is changing fast and, like Nokia and Blackberry, Microsoft had made themselves irrelevant within a short space of time.
Few people in developing countries are BUYING anything Microsoft. They'd rather pirate than buy, as nobody who has respect for hard-earned currency will willingly go buy it unless it comes installed. How many people have you seen flocking to computer stores to BUY Windows? I haven't seen any but I have seen countless pirate installations.
Linux is being taken up in developing countries at an increasing speed.and Ubuntu shipped on 30 million PC's over the past two years, pre-installed. For every CD download, many copy (legally) and install. I have been sending DVD's to people who have no broadband for quite a while, covering only my direct cost. Every receiver then went and did multiple installations in his dorpie and district. This is how Linux is growing and it is only the myopic that will not see what is happening.
Even the Mac had its 41 viruses so it became a Linux box. Linux is not safer because of a small global footprint, but rather because of how it works. One has to be particularly talented and industrious to manage getting your Linux computer infected by a virus. Like Android, it is hyper secure and the USER is the real threat. I doubt even the existence of a pure Android "virus."
Android devices only get compromised by malware hidden in especially free apps. Only ONE anti-malware sniff these out and that is AVL PRO, a mostly unknown app. Eset, Avast, AVG, Avira, Bitdefender, Norton, Kaspersky & the rest all let riskware slip through, The Admob-type is in almost ALL free Android apps as it is used to earn revenues for developers BUT it can install and execute third party apps without your knowledge or consent.
If one is a bit savvy and apply your mind, Android is as safe as Linux which is as safe as houses. The recent Shellshock or Bash Bug as it is also called, was more scaremongering than reality. Even before it was uncovered, my own Linux box passed every Bash test as it was updated frequently.
Linux is safe and secure, it is stable, reliable, extremely simple to install and use and then also more hardware compliant nowadays than Windows or OS X. Gone are the days when hardware did not work or one had to hack into source code to change a basic setting. It has matured into a graceful and extremely powerful OS.
Of course, the uninformed and passive, reactionary people out there will follow the herd. Instead, I create my own and move along with smarter folks who can see beyond the horizons of tomorrow.
The general computer user will remain inferior to Linux.
