![]() ![]() My mothers, my brothers, my roommates and also my girlfriends. Last year I installed Lindows on every PC in my house. Statistics and numbers will always say what you want them to say: your point of view of the situation. Their (and other alike compagnies) “studies” are just impossible to perform in fact dueġ) The mandatory “tax” to MS with every sold PC (that tax is called Windows for those who were wondering)Ģ) AND to the possibility of the users to do whatever they want with their PC just after they left the shop.Įven in the coporate world thios is relevant to NOTHING because:ġ) because previous points 1) and 2) are also valid. Man, this Gartner “thing” is just plain NON RELEVANT to existing situation. “LINUX ? WE JUST USE IT” (I am going to trademark this sentence )))) … who amongst the users community really CARE about that kind of figures ? How did they evaluate the fact that almost ALL PC’s MUST be shipped with Windoze on it (because MS bla bla bla) and that a lot more people than they think just re-format the disk to install Linux (or even install dual boot) without just screaming it lound ? How do they count dual booting systems they don’t even know about. The growth factor, is whats important, not the still relatively small number of machines shipping. Ofcourse what the “others” are, we dont know for sure, but my guess is its a handfull of BSD machines, and some of the lesser used OSes like RiscOS, QNX, Irix, Solaris, and browsers that choose not to include the OS header. Good for divercity, bad for monoculture.Ĭurrently Googles Zeitgeist suggest Windows has about 91% of the market share – 1% Linux, 3% Mac, 5% “Others”. This _could_ mean two large Microsoft gambles will be lost before they hit the market with full force. This is an interesting development, if Xbox2 mainly supports XNA directly in the hardware as opposed to OpenGL+SDL or whatever gamedevs decide to use. to support these two platforms at a combined 5-6-7% marketshare, they will have to drop DirectX and XNA – in favor of more open technologies such as OpenGL, SDL, etc. The interesting bit here, is that for game devs. 3% market share, ID software has since the dawn of time supported multiple platforms. Currently, Blizzard supports MacOS X at aprox. Which means that Linux will be an even more attractive platform for people to run, as they can expect to pull out the newest game DVD, pop it in their Linux computer and start playing. ![]() When Linux hits around 3% of the market for desktops, which numbers indicate it will soon enough, its not a market to ignore anymore by hardware developers, game developers or the ISVs. How many percent was that in 2000? 0.1%? So the growth is pretty significant. What matters here is the year-over-year growth of Linux systems shipping. ![]()
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