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Originally posted by dee. View PostAnd those stats are totally useless. They're biased, counted with flawed methology, and do not represent real usage statistics in any way. All they do is count page views on websites that are in co-operation with statcounter (about 3 million websites). That's already a biased sampling.
Seriously, there are no accurate statistics for desktop OS shares, and pages like netapplications or statcounter are just selling bullshit in a bag.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostThis is all data from StatCounter, which is not super reliable, but as good as it gets.
Seriously, there are no accurate statistics for desktop OS shares, and pages like netapplications or statcounter are just selling bullshit in a bag.
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Originally posted by chrisb View PostIt depends what you mean by popularity. Red Hat makes money from enterprise services and support, with an emphasis on servers. If that is what you mean by popularity, then Red Hat is indeed more popular. If by popularity you mean "number of desktop users", and you also believe that web browsers are a good metric for measuring that, they Ubuntu is more popular (Wikimedia stats)
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Originally posted by chrisb View PostIt does not seem reliable at all: according to that site, Android usage in China is 0%.
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostFunny that Ubuntu fanboys never question Ubuntu's alleged popularity, yet it's Red Hat which makes more than a billion USD profit per year while Canonical loses money.
At the end of the day, they are both good distributions, but perhaps for slightly different reasons.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostThat's not really the case. In China, Windows XP is still dominant. After that is Windows 7, Windows 8 and Mac OS X.
This is all data from StatCounter, which is not super reliable, but as good as it gets.
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Originally posted by chrisb View PostWhat market share are you talking about? U.S.? Global? And how is it being measured?
Anybody actually able to back up the claim that Canonical increased Linux' public awareness and that it did not simply shift from other distributions to Ubuntu but overall stayed the same?
Originally posted by dee. View PostWell, that remains to be seen. They could still turn that around and make a profit.
Originally posted by dee. View PostIt's not like Ubuntu is the worst operating system in the world
Originally posted by dee. View Post"Should"? Maybe not. But some still do. Not everyone follows best programming practices.
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Originally posted by chrisb View PostI suspect the accuracy falls quite a bit when western companies are trying to estimate market share in, say, China (particularly given that a lot of the large sites where data is taken from - like Google, BBC, Wikipedia etc. are blocked in China). I would also suspect that in developing nations Linux would be a bit more popular than in the West, due to the price being a more important factor, and due to concerns over security and reliance on a western company, countries like China would be more keen to switch from Windows than the U.S. is.
The country where what you said does hold true is Cuba: it's 6.8% Linux adoption there, due to national promotion. Still Windows XP has the vast majority there. And then there's Western Sahara, where it's 100% Linux usageThough honestly I have no idea what's up with that, since it isn't just one person using the internet there overall... It's like 36 people in total.
This is all data from StatCounter, which is not super reliable, but as good as it gets.Last edited by GreatEmerald; 26 June 2013, 07:53 AM.
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