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Take this with a rather large bag of suspicion! Netmarketshare is reporting that Linux had 6.91% market share, which is higher than Mac for the first time.
Not only that, but it seems even FreeBSD actually registered on it this time too.
Honestly, it seems far too good to be true. Hold the partying and champagne popping for now. Other sites like StatCounter separate Chrome OS (which uses the Linux kernel), but I believe Netmarketshare does not. StatCounter also shows Linux overall at far less than what Netmarketshare shows.
With that said, both websites have reported Linux growth over the past year. It may not be as large as we want it to be, but it seems multiple sites statistics do report Linux market share is growing and that's the important thing here.
What do you think? A nonsense blip, or Linux really making gains?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: SolitaryI don't think ChromeOS is much of a thing in Europe in general, I don't know anyone that bought one. Correct me if I am wrong.I know a handful of ChromeOS devices being used. But in general, you're right.
And without a plausible explanation on the huge upturn in the past (two) month(s), I'm gonna consider this a blip.
Quoting: Uramekus"This report contains preview data that has NOT been reviewed by Quality Assurance."Hah, that wasn't there when I first looked at it. I'm guessing they've had to put that up, due to how different it is. I did say it was suspicious!
well , yeah, we have our response rn with this.
Edit: This is now clearly noted at the top of the article, to prevent confusion.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 1 October 2017 at 10:44 am UTC
Quoting: SolitaryI don't think ChromeOS is much of a thing in Europe in general, I don't know anyone that bought one. Correct me if I am wrong.
Are Chromebooks even available in Europe? Maybe in some of the western countries, but certainly not where I live.
Last edited by pb on 1 October 2017 at 11:18 am UTC
Before you start to celebrate, just think for a moment. Was there any big release in Linux that would make people start using it?
From my perspective there was none, so it's hard for me to believe that suddenly people started to use Linux without a reason and now there are more than twice Linux users than month before.
This netmarketshare... Who are they? How do they calculate marketshare? Maybe their results are indicating other thing going on. I don't know how do they measure marketshare, but for example, let's assume they are collecting user agent string from multiple pages. It may be indicator, that there is a new botnet of infected Linux machines that are visiting those pages. Other scenario is that there are new crawlers running on one host having dynamic external IP and they do not handle it correctly, hey have just changed the way they are calculating results, etc, etc.
There are many potential scenarios, such a significant grow without a reason makes no sense to be honest.
Quoting: pbQuoting: SolitaryI don't think ChromeOS is much of a thing in Europe in general, I don't know anyone that bought one. Correct me if I am wrong.
Are Chromebooks even available in Europe? Maybe in some of the western countries, but certainly not where I live.
Available in Germany, but I don't know anybody who has got one or only considered one.
Quoting: pbAre Chromebooks even available in Europe? Maybe in some of the western countries, but certainly not where I live.
MediaMarkt NL has 15 chromebooks on their website, out of 313 laptops in total. But yeah, about as 'western' as you can get.
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