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2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 14 comments
Desktop Linux; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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According to DesktopLinux.com's just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in the past year, and Ubuntu remains their Linux distribution of choice. Since DesktopLinux.com's recently completed survey is a self-selected group, we can't claim scientific proof that the number of desktop Linux users has more than doubled in the past year. Still, this year's survey produced 38,500 votes versus 14,535 votes over the same number of days in a similar survey one year ago.

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It is an interesting article, but it doesn't really tell much. Even with 38.000 votes, it does not represent the linux market by far. Take that if there would be ONLY 380.000 linux users, then only 10% would have answered the poll. If there would be 3.800.000 linux users, then only 1% would have voted. As I said, interesing, but not real.

on a side note.....the reason PCLinuxOS did so poor is that < me and the other 6.000 PCLinuxOS users > didn't know there was a poll on --grin-grin--
Yeah, I didn't know about no stinkin' poll.........
I believe the poll was linked to in the LXer newswire.
nikkels -

You sweet, innocent, naive little fanboi.

You may not have noticed, but there are only 17 Linux users in the entire world. It seems like more, but it really is only 17. I've got it on good authority from The Enderle Group and others.
dinotrack,

That isn't nice of you. I have spend nearly 2 hours to do the math and now you spoil it al by telling me I started of with the wrong numbers

sies man !
> ...but there are only 17 Linux users...

Well, that's about the number of active LXer posters who claim to use Linux, so it may be correct. :)
nikkels: you South African?

Can't imagine "sies man" being said by anyone other than.
17 users hmm...

That's probably within an order of magnitude ( you know 1 is on the order of Pi, Pi is on the order of 10, ...).

You really know a distro is popular when you get people saying things like:

"Ubuntu! Yeah I want Ubuntu! Uh, what is an Ubuntu?"
>Uh, what is an Ubuntu?

Just shorthand for the Golden Rule:

Ubuntu others as you would have others Ubuntu you.
That sounds really gross.
>That sounds really gross.

Gross is in the eye/ear of the beholder.
dino,

Gross has been well defined for decades...

Gross is when you Grandmother kisses you goodbye, she sticks her tongue down your throat.

(For the life of me, I cannot remember the movie that came from and IMDB is no help.)
>Gross is when you Grandmother kisses you goodbye, she sticks her tongue down your throat.

Gross is in the eye, ear or throat of the beholder.
Uhm, yes, Linux only has 17 users. The other 7 users insist it's GNU/Linux.

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