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RE[3]: Linux has reached the 90% market share
by siride on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 15:45
in reply to "RE[2]: Linux has reached the 90% market share"
Based on download stats from Ubuntu and Fedora and the like, desktop Linux users are likely in the millions, maybe 10s of millions. Not bad, but hardly a significant portion of the desktop market. Walk around anywhere with computers and you'll be hard-pressed to find Linux machines, or at least a significant number of them, unless you are in some specialized location like a Linux lab at a university.






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Don't beleive the hype. Gazillion eh?
Also, for these figures to be of any meaning whatsoever we need to know how the data was sampled, what the sample is and how the results was calculated.
Statistics for which you don't know, or can't find out, these values are meaningless.
I'm not saying they're wrong but if they won't tell you how they arrived at their conclusions it's pretty much worthless.