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  • #11
    I wonder how much of Linux is from all the ChromeOS netbooks there are.

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    • #12
      Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
      I'm pretty sure if someone is smart enough to use Linux, they're smart enough to know to avoid clicking on banners in the first place.
      You got me there. But i enjoy the freedom to do it. Just to mess with them.

      Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
      How? It is much more keyboard-intensive than Windows or Mac.
      It was a rumour is was trying to start. Guess i didn't really thought it through...

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      • #13
        Originally posted by castlefox View Post
        I wonder how much of Linux is from all the ChromeOS netbooks there are.
        Bingo. ChromeOS doesn't register on Steam. Since they outsell macbooks at this point, I'd expect they make a large impact.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by Steffo View Post
          My conclusion: Mostly men watch porns and most Linux users are men, too. So they measured the Linux market share for men.
          According to the 1/5 market share of IOS, Apple users are bigger wankers: "For mobile they rank Android at 50%, iOS at 47%"

          :-)

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          • #15
            they got me (blush)

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            • #16
              Originally posted by schmidtbag View Post
              How? It is much more keyboard-intensive than Windows or Mac.
              Only if your're using some mobile like interface like gnome.

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              • #17
                Originally posted by Passso View Post
                More and more people are masturbating under Linux!
                They care about their safety.

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                • #18
                  Originally posted by castlefox View Post
                  I wonder how much of Linux is from all the ChromeOS netbooks there are.
                  Originally posted by AndyChow View Post
                  Bingo. ChromeOS doesn't register on Steam. Since they outsell macbooks at this point, I'd expect they make a large impact.
                  According to StatCounter (which is one of the few market share monitoring companies that reports the market share for Chrome OS separately from the market share for the traditional GNU/Linux desktop), the market share for Chrome OS rose rapidly over the past year, while the market share for traditional GNU/Linux remained nearly unchanged at about 1.5% over that same period.

                  I don't pay too much attention to the % values reported by these methods, but instead focus on the rates of change in market share that can be derived from them. That is, I think that these methods give reasonable estimates of rates of change in market share. For example, the increases in market share for Windows 10 reported by statcounter square pretty well with cumulative sales/upgrade data. Similarly, the increases in market share for Chrome OS as reported by statcounter square pretty well with sales data. Also, the periodic dips in Chrome OS, as someone pointed out to me, correspond to the summer months, during which time students don't have access to their school issued Chromebooks, which makes sense.

                  So, although I don't put much stock in the "1.48%" number as being a true market share in for Linux in 12/2015, or in the "1.57%" number as being a true market share in for Linux in 12/2016, I do believe that the data accurately reflect that the market share for Linux (whatever its actual value may be) hasn't really changed much over the past year.

                  EDIT: The data for Chrome OS and traditional GNU/Linux aren't depicted on the graph shown on the above linked StatCounter webpage. But the data are included the .csv spreadsheet that can be downloaded using the "Download Data" link. I created the graph found on the linked imgur webpage using data from a previous version of the .csv spreadsheet.
                  Last edited by GizmoChicken; 07 January 2017, 03:52 AM.

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                  • #19
                    You just spelled out what we already knew: Linux users are wankers

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                    • #20
                      Sorry, I am extremely late. Typo:

                      Originally posted by phoronix View Post
                      the 53rd most popular wen-site in the world​​​​​​

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