Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 23:50 UTC
CodingExperiments.com posted an interesting article by utilizing the Google Trends system to show the trends in the Linux ecosystem. While these trends don't mean "market share", they are interesting and pretty accurate in terms of what average users care about. According to it, "Ubuntu" might even overtake the word "linux" in Google's searches.
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2008-04-15
People being taken apart for badmouthing Ubuntu? I don't think the community is that zealous yet. Although there are a few "it just works" types cropping up.
Ubuntu is getting way more coverage than any other distro by far so it makes sense that google has it trending upwards.
Most people using distros other than ubuntu will be doing a lot less searching because we've already learn't how to deal with problems. While online searches trend down the userbase should by all rights be gaining knowledge to fix their own issues without Google.
Over time there will be new users who feel ubuntu talks down to them a bit too much. Everyone has to start somewhere and Ubuntu is helping bring a lot of people to open source so that can only be a good thing.
Ubuntu is a great Debian training manual.