https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-
share-reaches-4-of-desktops/

"Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according
to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3
percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re still far from the
Year of the Linux Desktop, interest in Linux has somewhat grown lately."

It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.

fwiw the update to the last Windows Insider release has been failing to
install for a month. The Insiders channel mood has turned to "WTF MS?"

On Mar 5, 2024 at 3:37:01 PM EST, "rbowman" <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-
> share-reaches-4-of-desktops/
>
> "Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according
> to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3
> percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re still far from the
> Year of the Linux Desktop, interest in Linux has somewhat grown lately."

More interesting to me, is what is that 6.11% "unknown"?

> It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.

That's a cute saying, but the reality is that fast(er) and steady(er) wins the
race. Every time. No one wins any race by being the slowest.

> fwiw the update to the last Windows Insider release has been failing to
> install for a month. The Insiders channel mood has turned to "WTF MS?"

This is not what I would call "news". Let us know when Windows updates DO
install.

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-
>share-reaches-4-of-desktops/
>
>"Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according
>to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3
>percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re still far from the
>Year of the Linux Desktop, interest in Linux has somewhat grown lately."
>
>It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.
>
>fwiw the update to the last Windows Insider release has been failing to
>install for a month. The Insiders channel mood has turned to "WTF MS?"

We see how M$ is endlessly building, the OS that is always at the
bleeding edge but with so many people using an older version, whereas
with Linux you have a straightforward schedule of upgrades where it
remains current.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

Tyrone wrote:

>> It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.
>
>That's a cute saying, but the reality is that fast(er) and steady(er) wins the
>race. Every time. No one wins any race by being the slowest.

Bad logic. As long as Linux' market share continues to increase, it
will eventually win.

Seriously, who knows what things will look like in 100 years? I doubt
that "desktop Windows" will still be a big thing.

--
"I did make the claim that companies have to break the law in order to
increase the revenue for their shareholders." - Oliver Wrong

rbowman wrote:

>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-
>share-reaches-4-of-desktops/
>
>"Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according
>to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3
>percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re still far from the
>Year of the Linux Desktop, interest in Linux has somewhat grown lately."
>
>It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.

Troll! 8) You're going to make some dumb fsck very angry!

--
"[DFS is] a know-nothing, a liar, and a k00k. A bigot. A racist. A
nasty human being. Better you should ignore his miserable misguided
ravings." - Chris Ahlstrom

Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 21:11 this Tuesday (GMT):
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>
>>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-
>>share-reaches-4-of-desktops/
>>
>>"Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according
>>to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3
>>percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re still far from the
>>Year of the Linux Desktop, interest in Linux has somewhat grown lately."
>>
>>It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.
>>
>>fwiw the update to the last Windows Insider release has been failing to
>>install for a month. The Insiders channel mood has turned to "WTF MS?"
>
>
> We see how M$ is endlessly building, the OS that is always at the
> bleeding edge but with so many people using an older version, whereas
> with Linux you have a straightforward schedule of upgrades where it
> remains current.

MS literally has to force W10 users to upgrade because of how
disliked W11 is.
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

On 5 Mar 2024 20:37:01 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> "Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share ...

That’s only desktops, which accounts for maybe 25% of the world computing
market.

Linux dominates the remaining 75%.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

>On 5 Mar 2024 20:37:01 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> "Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share ...
>
>That’s only desktops, which accounts for maybe 25% of the world computing
>market.
>
>Linux dominates the remaining 75%.

Linux rulz!

--
"I'd be surprised if you can find even ONE book printing company that
says they accept LaTex files." - some dumb fsck

On Mar 5, 2024 at 4:40:07 PM EST, "chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> Tyrone wrote:
>
>>> It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.
>>
>> That's a cute saying, but the reality is that fast(er) and steady(er) wins the
>> race. Every time. No one wins any race by being the slowest.
>
> Bad logic. As long as Linux' market share continues to increase, it
> will eventually win.
>
> Seriously, who knows what things will look like in 100 years? I doubt
> that "desktop Windows" will still be a big thing.

Neither will Linux. The "desktop race" will be long over by then. In fact,
its nearly over now as the world continues to go mobile.

On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:29:29 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

>
> as the world continues to go mobile.
>

Why don't you go mobile and roll your fat ass out of here?

Relf <Usenet@Jeff-Relf.Me> wrote at 23:40 this Tuesday (GMT):
> CandyPants:

*candycanearter07

>> MS literally has to force W10 users to upgrade because of how disliked W11 is.
>
> Europe should fine Microsoft ( and others ) for forcing these F*cking Upgrades.
>
> They recently gave Apple another 2 billion $ antitrust fine.

Yeah, it is getting a bit comical how much they're forcing it.
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

If only they stuck to making a good operating system instead of pushing
whatever this "windows as a service" BS is!
--
(yaxp me) => t

Tyrone wrote:

> chrisv wrote:
>>
>> Seriously, who knows what things will look like in 100 years? I doubt
>> that "desktop Windows" will still be a big thing.
>
>Neither will Linux.

I'd bet that Linux will be ever bigger.

>The "desktop race" will be long over by then. In fact,
>its nearly over now as the world continues to go mobile.

Personally I consider portable "laptop" computers effectively the same
as "desktop" computers. So not anything near "over".

I think they'll always be the need for "desktop workstations", even if
the actual brains of them may be portable, 99% of the time.

--
'He thinks "open" means bug free.' - Hadron Quark, lying shamelessly

On 3/5/2024 4:50 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

> MS literally has to force W10 users to upgrade because of how
> disliked W11 is.

What is it with you lying Linux idiots?

On 3/5/2024 5:55 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2024 20:37:01 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> "Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share ...
>
> That’s only desktops,

Which is the ONLY reason Linux was invented, and is the ONLY reason any
of us are here, and is the ONLY market Torvalds ever cared about.

> which accounts for maybe 25% of the world computing
> market.
>
> Linux dominates the remaining 75%.

Unix does anyway. GuhNoo just cadged everything they could from Unix,
then gave it away. And GuhNoo got extremely lucky Torvalds had a
kernel, else we never would've heard of Linux.

But overall, it's definitely a good thing to have an open source, free
of cost OS as an alternative to Win and Mac.

On 3/5/2024 6:29 PM, Tyrone wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2024 at 4:40:07 PM EST, "chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Tyrone wrote:
>>
>>>> It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.
>>>
>>> That's a cute saying, but the reality is that fast(er) and steady(er) wins the
>>> race. Every time. No one wins any race by being the slowest.
>>
>> Bad logic. As long as Linux' market share continues to increase, it
>> will eventually win.
>>
>> Seriously, who knows what things will look like in 100 years? I doubt
>> that "desktop Windows" will still be a big thing.
>
> Neither will Linux. The "desktop race" will be long over by then. In fact,
> its nearly over now as the world continues to go mobile.

The desktop race was over May 20 1990.

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>On 3/5/2024 4:50 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> MS literally has to force W10 users to upgrade because of how
>> disliked W11 is.
>
>What is it with you lying Linux idiots?

Actually, candycanearter07 is right about this - you're supposed to be
able to choose if you want the free upgrade, but there are ways they
find of getting people to click when they aren't sure of what they're
getting.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

DFS <dfs@nospam.com> wrote:

>The desktop race was over May 20 1990.

Windows 3.x? ROFL! If you'd said Windows 2000, maybe. But in truth
Microsoft has abandoned what Windows used to be. The support of
Win10, 11 or 12 is as advertised basically, in fact I'd have gotten 13
solid years of M$ support on this machine between the three versions,
but good luck with upgrades beyond a certain point, sticking one with
an arbitrary version.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

Tyrone wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Mar 5, 2024 at 4:40:07 PM EST, "chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Tyrone wrote:
>>
>>>> It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.
>>>
>>> That's a cute saying, but the reality is that fast(er) and steady(er) wins the
>>> race. Every time. No one wins any race by being the slowest.
>>
>> Bad logic. As long as Linux' market share continues to increase, it
>> will eventually win.
>>
>> Seriously, who knows what things will look like in 100 years? I doubt
>> that "desktop Windows" will still be a big thing.
>
> Neither will Linux. The "desktop race" will be long over by then. In fact,
> its nearly over now as the world continues to go mobile.

There will always be desktops, even if they are using a "mobile" device as the
CPU node.

--
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chrisv wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> rbowman wrote:
>
>>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-
>>share-reaches-4-of-desktops/
>>
>>"Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according
>>to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3
>>percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re still far from the
>>Year of the Linux Desktop, interest in Linux has somewhat grown lately."
>>
>>It might take a while longer but slow and steady wins the race.
>
> Troll! 8) You're going to make some dumb fsck very angry!
>
> --
> "[DFS is] a know-nothing, a liar, and a k00k. A bigot. A racist. A
> nasty human being. Better you should ignore his miserable misguided
> ravings." - Chris Ahlstrom

I partially retract those words.

I've mellowed with age.

--
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chrisv wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>>On 5 Mar 2024 20:37:01 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> "Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share ...
>>
>>That’s only desktops, which accounts for maybe 25% of the world computing
>>market.
>>
>>Linux dominates the remaining 75%.
>
> Linux rulz!
>
> --
> "I'd be surprised if you can find even ONE book printing company that
> says they accept LaTex files." - some dumb fsck

https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/book-authors/prepare-your-manuscript/wiley-latex-template.html

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Joel wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> DFS <dfs@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>The desktop race was over May 20 1990.

:-D

The "desktop" (i.e. IBM-supported "Billy Boxes") competitors back then?

Atari
Commodore
Sun
Apple

Only one around now.

> Windows 3.x? ROFL! If you'd said Windows 2000, maybe. But in truth
> Microsoft has abandoned what Windows used to be. The support of
> Win10, 11 or 12 is as advertised basically, in fact I'd have gotten 13
> solid years of M$ support on this machine between the three versions,
> but good luck with upgrades beyond a certain point, sticking one with
> an arbitrary version.

I think Win 2K was the sweet spot for Windoze.

--
You teach best what you most need to learn.

On 3/6/2024 7:59 AM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>> On 3/5/2024 4:50 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>
>>> MS literally has to force W10 users to upgrade because of how
>>> disliked W11 is.
>>
>> What is it with you lying Linux idiots?
>
>
> Actually, candycanearter07 is right about this - you're supposed to be
> able to choose if you want the free upgrade, but there are ways they
> find of getting people to click when they aren't sure of what they're
> getting.

"Windows 10 is the most popular Windows desktop operating system,
accounting for a market share of around 72 percent as of August 2023."

On 3/6/2024 8:05 AM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <dfs@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> The desktop race was over May 20 1990.
>
>
> Windows 3.x? ROFL!
Win1 and 2 went nowhere, but MS has totally and completely dominated
computer desktop OSs since releasing v3.0. That's nearly 34 years.
Incredible.

As I recall, at one point Windows was on 97% of PC desktops. Right now
it's around 90%.

> If you'd said Windows 2000, maybe. But in truth
> Microsoft has abandoned what Windows used to be. The support of
> Win10, 11 or 12 is as advertised basically, in fact I'd have gotten 13
> solid years of M$ support on this machine between the three versions,
> but good luck with upgrades beyond a certain point, sticking one with
> an arbitrary version.

MS is doomed by Linux "advocates" running Windows apps in Linux.

On 3/6/2024 8:20 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>> "[DFS is] a know-nothing, a liar, and a k00k. A bigot. A racist. A
>> nasty human being. Better you should ignore his miserable misguided
>> ravings."
>
> I partially retract those words.

Why?