Linux FINALLY overtakes Windows 98 in user stats

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The problem with Linux is that there are too many distros. They should cooperate on ONE and make that cuttting edge.
 
Doesn't really mean anything. I only regged once and I run Slack on > 20 boxes at work.

@Skeptik: Choice is good :D.
 
As it is right now I think they could have something like 5-10% of the market on merit, but until they get better hardware and software manufacturer support, they will struggle to overtake XP by 2012
 
Skeptik said:
The problem with Linux is that there are too many distros. They should cooperate on ONE and make that cuttting edge.
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My thoughts exactly. If they concentrated on just one distribution then I'm sure it would become a whole lot more popular, then the software developers like the ones that make pc games would hopefully build games that run on linux then Microsoft would have some good competition.
 
Also interesting to note the screen resolutions. why is 1280x1024 so far behind even though LCD's are far more prevalent?

1.) people don't know how to change their resolution? (since windows usually defaults to 1024x768).
2.) do they intentionally lower the resolution, because windows XP's default font size is too small?

I find that about half my client's with LCD's run them below the native res
 
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viper357 said:
My thoughts exactly. If they concentrated on just one distribution then I'm sure it would become a whole lot more popular, then the software developers like the ones that make pc games would hopefully build games that run on linux then Microsoft would have some good competition.
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I think that is an over-simplification. When Loki games was still going I recall reading a criticism about the many different window managers being a problem for the installer to automagically do everything for the user. Producing a binary package that will actually run on most distros usually means taking into account 4 or 5 of the distros with the largest userbase, and this quite often has more to do with differences in dependency management inside the package. Often the binary package runs on other distros because (a) smaller distros are heavily based on the larger ones and (b) GNU/Linux actually has some standards like a File System Hierarchy and (mostly) backward-compatible glibc.
What really sunk Loki in the end was probably lack of consumer uptake. Same as with the electric car in California. People just weren't motivated enough to make the change I guess.

Finally, what you mentioned above was actually attempted with United Linux (SUSE, Turbolinux, SCO etc). Of course that died with the SCO vs IBM thing and SCO's baseless accusations of various copyright infringements. I guess when the stakes get high, the knives come out, don't think we'll ever get past that as a species :rolleyes:.
 
Sapphiron said:
Also interesting to note the screen resolutions. why is 1280x1024 so far behind even though LCD's are far more prevalent?

1.) people don't know how to change their resolution? (since windows usually defaults to 1024x768).
2.) do they intentionally lower the resolution, because windows XP's default font size is too small?

I find that about half my client's with LCD's run them below the native res
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LCD might me more common, but they are still far outweighed by CRT's. They run them at below native res because many people have sight problems.
 
nice to see Firefox/Mozilla with 26% of the browser 'market'...

I use 1152x864 on most of my systems, so when I remote into them from my main pc, running at 1280x1024, I get a nice window showing the whole desktop...
 
do people who are pro windows hate it that people have found a viable solution outside of MS that works for them? You go to any of them main linux distros and everytime this market share issue comes up you see that none of them has a goal to surpass any form of windows as the os of choice.
 
milomak said:
do people who are pro windows hate it that people have found a viable solution outside of MS that works for them? You go to any of them main linux distros and everytime this market share issue comes up you see that none of them has a goal to surpass any form of windows as the os of choice.
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I have to admit that the above quote wouldn't be far from my response on one of my less_than_diplomatic_rm-rf_lusers days :D.

Check out Ubuntu bug #1 :D (This is not flamebait BTW)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Bug description [edit]

Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
Steps to repeat:
1. Visit a local PC store.
What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.
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milomak said:
do people who are pro windows hate it that people have found a viable solution outside of MS that works for them? You go to any of them main linux distros and everytime this market share issue comes up you see that none of them has a goal to surpass any form of windows as the os of choice.
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So Linux purpose to to decline in users not to increase then? I don't think the guys who develop the operating systems would see it your way.
 
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