Linux Market Share On Desktop Increased By About 50% In 2011

Of course it's up with 50% . Me and my friends visited that site every day , with a different distro, with a different IP address. Say thanks, all of you !!!!!!!!!

Serious.......I do appreciate the effort, but no matter what you do, chances are that you are out with a 500%.

OK , back to work !!!!!!!

When M$ used an internal figure of 5-7%,... And they're the competition, ... I'm inclined to defer to their numbers.

Every time I've written on this subject I've explained why web counters are useless for determining, well... anything accurately. Yet articles like this keep getting published. Heck, Ken Hess is more accurate than web counters.

Unfortunately these are the stats that commercial developers listen to. I've just gone through this exercise with a developer of an application that helps break down a tune so one can learn it or practice to it.

As far as he is concerned Android is a better market than desktop Linux. Which means he won't even bother giving the WINE people any information to help them make his application usable on Linux.

This is just yet more evidence, that web-browser client stats (at least those gathered by commercial enterprises) are still as worthless as they've ever been.

Linux desktop market share hasn't been as low as he claims in about a decade. Yet more and more of this nonsense gets published. Sad.