It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.
While calculating the market share of a desktop operating system is never going to be exactly correct, sites like NetMarketShare are one of the best ways to look at it. According to their stats the Linux share has bumped between around 1.5% and 2% for some time. That changed when they recently put up April's stats, which shows the Linux market overall according to them at 2.87%.
The biggest winner appears to be Ubuntu when looking over what Linux versions they track. Ubuntu alone seemed to go from 0.27% in March up to 1.89% in April.
What would be the cause of such a bump? Well, entirely possible it's due to more people using Linux personally at home where they would perhaps be using Windows workstations in their job. Really we could speculate forever on this - so over to you, what do you think?
Nothing to go popping open the champagne over though, while it's a big jump it would only truly be worth celebrating if it sustains the higher position. At least when looking over the Steam numbers too (see our Steam Tracker), we're trending upwards there.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: KuJoExactly my situation, too. Well, minus the Amiga.QuoteWhat would be the cause of such a bump? Well, entirely possible it's due to more people using Linux personally at home where they would perhaps be using Windows workstations in their job.That's the situation with me. In the office I have to use Windows. At home I use Linux Mint. :)
(And sometimes a Commodore Amiga ... :D )
Being harder to "borrow" a work CD for home use might also cause an increase in Linux market share.
Quoting: detroutAt least at my workplace Microsoft is restricting volume licensed versions of windows in favor of subscription based licenses as of March 31, 2020Whoa, for real? They've been trying for many years now to move to a subscription model. Wonder if they'll manage to finally
Cyba.Cowboy May 8, 2020
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Quoting: jarhead_hHonestly, I think that a good number of people are starting to think that Bill Gates really is evil afterall,
Mostly tinfoil heads, lately.
Cyba.Cowboy May 9, 2020
Quoting: EikeQuoting: jarhead_hHonestly, I think that a good number of people are starting to think that Bill Gates really is evil afterall,
Mostly tinfoil heads, lately.
Just like John Cena the person, Bill Gates the person is one of the best things in this world... His company, not so much.
And it's not a case of "tinfoil hats" - Microsoft makes no secret about just how much of your personal information it tracks intimately within its software, almost all of which cannot be deactivated unless you have a "volume" license.
I don't know what other people have against Microsoft, but for me, it's their insistence that its users should have absolutely no privacy whatsoever, unless they purchase a "volume" license... That's simply unforgivable.
After nearly ten years of being Microsoft free, I don't miss it one bit...
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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyMicrosoft makes no secret about just how much of your personal information it tracks intimately within its software, almost all of which cannot be deactivated unless you have a "volume" license.
I wouldn't be here if I were a fan of them. Though I fear there's worse companies nowadays...
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