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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2007-08-29
You haven't mentioned kubuntu yet - given that a try?
My experience with ubuntu is that once you get things working, it's stable (I agree about the last few versions not being up to par, but 8.04 works perfectly for me). Except if you do something stupid... or if nautilus springs a memory leak. I really hate that.
The newbies you don't like just represent the average computer user. Look on the bright side: Using Ubuntu, they can do less damage.
Choice, now. I don't know much about that. I do know that I'm not stuck with gnome (and I don't use it), and that I can put together a custom DTE if I really want to. It's entirely configurable. You know your way around, so aside from philosophical objections does it really matter what the default setup is?
Edited 2008-07-04 12:15 UTC