Originally posted by thalaric
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Unfortunately "Not completely useless" and "useful" are not the same thing
But if we want to throw meaningless numbers around, you can take the Phoronix poll. I find that poll completely useless, just as the other polls, but I guess you would categorize it differently, so let's look at the data: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...2012_res&num=1
"Which of the following most resemble your dekstop?"
GNOME2+GNOME3: 993 (60%)
Unity: 198
KDE: 201
Other: 260
"What is the latest version of GNOME you are using?"
3.x: 2986 (68%)
2.x: 436
Not using it: 947
What conclusions can we draw from this?
Well, none, because the poll, like most random Internet polls is badly done.
But if we, just for the sake of argument, pretend that the numbers are actually an approximation of reality...
These numbers are at least to me not something that screams "GNOME is dying!". Actually quite the opposite. GNOME seems to be doing pretty good.
Also note that this is a poll hosted by Phoronix (not made by), and pretty much made to show how bad GNOME3 is doing. So I think we can quite safely assume that any bias would be *against* GNOME with regards to the demographics.
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