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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2008-06-12
This is dead on!
The best part of using a distro that is also used by an army of newbs is that whenever you have a stupid question or you're too lazy to understand a problem, you just search the ubuntu forums and someone who is a lot more shameless than you has already asked the question.
The sad thing on the Ubuntu forums is that about half of the posts are just people who are clueless about UNIX permissions and don't understand the basics of things like 'sudo' and 'chmod'. In some sense having such clearly written, step-by-step tutorials for _everything_ might be preventing some of these people from ever learning the basics of their operating system.
I do NOT think that we should prevent people who don't understand the command line from using Linux. But in the case that they are trying to do something that requires the command line, I think copying and pasting commands from a forum is a rather ignorant way to operate a computer.