We are more than 1%

[Diabolis]

With this initiative, we intend to refute the statistics of certain press organizations that ensure that the use of GNU/Linux does not exceed 1% and has not advanced in recent years at the desktop.

http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en

[julio_cortez]

In before recurring

[Simian Man]

You're absolutely correct. The number is most likely actually closer to 1.2%.

[oldsoundguy]

Latest W3C has it at 1.52 for all laptop/desktop builds (does not include servers)

[philinux]

Moved to recurring.

[julio_cortez]

In before recurring

Moved to recurring.

YAYYYYY!! I won a free copy of Ubuntu 10.10!!
Wait.. Oh, nevermind, I guess I will download it like everyone else.

[Elfy]

YAYYYYY!! I won a free copy of Ubuntu 10.10!!
Wait.. Oh, nevermind, I guess I will download it like everyone else.

You'll have 2 then

[jrothwell97]

*puts statistician's hat on*

Complete nonsense. (The link, that is, not the idea that GNU/Linux desktop market share is >1%.)

First, where the hell are they getting their numbers from? I'd guess that it's by asking users to register their station on their web site.

But how the hell are you supposed to get everyone to register the number of stations they have? What about dual-booting systems? Systems with multiple distributions? What's to stop someone pharyngulating it? Do laptops count? Tablets? Where do you draw the line between PC tablet and iPad-style tablet?

To get more than 1% (and this isn't accounting for something significantly over 1%, which is clearly what they're hoping for) ten million workstations would all have to be registered, fairly and with no cheating or problems.

This is about as likely as Steve Jobs turning up at the next Apple keynote in a red G-string, suspenders and a t-shirt saying "I LOVE U RMS."

Second, it's flawed from the outset in that it's trying to prove a hypothesis using a self-selecting census. This is not how statistics works.

In virtually every case, you take a random sample of the total number of data, and analyse that. You start with the data and draw conclusions from it. You do not start with "I am going to prove..." less still intending to refute existing stats.

In short, whilst the statistic itself is still up for debate (and I'd guestimate it at more than 1%, more in the 2-5% band due to the number of power users and netbooks) this is going to be about as reliable as a Packard Bell PC, with a failing hard drive, running Windows Vista Beta 1.

[ubuntu27]

Let's prove that Linux users exceeds 1% of Desktop Market.

http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en

Everyone participate. ")

[CharlesA]

There was already a thread on this.

Threads merged.