Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
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Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#2>One key thing to note: Ubuntu isn’t seeing a 599 percent increase in additional users. That jump represents its increase in overall operating system market share from month to month. But it’s still an astonishing number
So... a whole bunch of servers using Ubuntu got fired up?
Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#3Windows will become an emulation layer in Linux. Why? Microsoft makes most money from cloud subscriptions.
Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#4>One key thing to note: Ubuntu isn’t seeing a 599 percent increase in additional users. That jump represents its increase in overall operating system market share from month to month. But it’s still an astonishing number So... a whole bunch of servers using Ubuntu got fired up?
The numbers being reported are based upon visits to websites which are part of the NetMarketShare data collection network, so a bunch of servers using Ubuntu getting fired up wouldn't account for the increase.
An increase in market share higher than the increase in actual users would be accounted for by the size of the market overall decreasing while the number of Ubuntu users either stayed the same, increased but at a lower rate than the increase in market share or decreased at a rate lower than the decrease in the number of users of other operating systems.
Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#5Windows will become an emulation layer in Linux. Why? Microsoft makes most money from cloud subscriptions.
It does seem possible at this point. They did it with their browser: the rendering engine changed from a point of differentiation to a liability, so they threw in with #1 to have some influence over it. The OS is headed that way.
Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#6Ubuntu is becoming more and more suitable for normal users. Most of the work is done in web browsers these days.
I do ubuntu minimal installation and almost everything works out of box. More people would be using if laptop makers start giving ubuntu as default option.
Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#7Windows allows the Linux layer and Ubuntu is the most popular option. Because the Windows market share goes down slightly doesn’t mean the new ubuntu users are exclusively separate users. There’s just an addition funnel of access now, creating more ubiquity amongst platforms. Yay!
Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#8Ubuntu is becoming more and more suitable for normal users. Most of the work is done in web browsers these days. I do ubuntu minimal installation and almost everything works out of box. More people would be using if laptop makers start giving ubuntu as default option.
You still get weird gotchas. My wife wanted to install Microsoft Teams to talk to our doctor. She got the the Linux download page then asked “should I download the .rpm or the .deb?”. Luckily I was there to tell her. Then she installed it like a champ and got it working, so that was nice.
But there’s no way she’d have just “known” this, and it’s just another hurdle to non technical users. Why should you have to know that Ubuntu is a downstream distro of Debian to install a program?
Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#9Is 2020 the year of the Linux desktop?
Re: Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
#10Windows allows the Linux layer and Ubuntu is the most popular option. Because the Windows market share goes down slightly doesn’t mean the new ubuntu users are exclusively separate users. There’s just an addition funnel of access now, creating more ubiquity amongst platforms. Yay!
These statistics are collected from web browsing activity. I doubt many people are browsing the web from WSL.