How many people around you using Linux?
 

I'm a undergraduate, and there is only 1 % people using Linux in their

desktop PC, what about you~??

I'm really interested at the popularity of Linux around you and your country. :)

:D

just me, in my place, and 2 in other towns (friends) , but many in the country. (www.hellug,gr, its in greek)

hi there

maybe u should have posted a poll with this query

i ma student,and i see that for development prposes,i see linux everywhere,and we have over 200 PCs on linux at out information technology centre for internet browsing

i have seen people using windows those just want to listen to music and not much more and not so much into computing,since working on linux is not that easy as on windows


regards

regards

how many people around you using linux
 

zyzyis; good question. maybe you should have phrased it differently; ie about how many pc users use linux(world-wide) & what country you reside. to answer your ?
at home am the only one with pc & use dual operating systems. building pc for exculsive linux use. how ever Los Angeles where i reside many use linux. does this help your quest?

At home i dual boot winxp with four linux distro (you might ask four!!!! yes, four because I love Linux). I dont know anyone using linux personally but there are many LUG's in and around chicago. There are LQ members from chicago too so yes, in my area Linux is known.

From close people (friends, family, relatives) the number is exactly zero, but i got few peaple i know only little using linux, id say about 4/5, depressingly small number considering that split personalities dont count :( :P

Nobody that I know personally uses it now. One did but couldn't get his network card to work and the only reason to use it was to look at something different than windows so he quitted pretty soon.

At home I dual boot- xp/fecora 2. Im planning on having the other 2 computers on my lan dul boot by the end of the year. Couple of my friends use linux as well.

Not a blessed soul in my small city that I know of... it's MINE, ALL MINE.... and my friends are getting damned sick of hearing how great it is.

I use it full time. The other PCs in my house (my brother's and my mom's) both use windows. My mom only uses hers for Sage Payroll and the internet so windows may as well stay. My brother plays games and uses the internet and doesn't want the hassle of learning linux.

I program, listen to music, watch videos, play games....the list goes on :)

I introduced my friend Rich to linux because he used to be a RISCOS dude before he got a windows PC. He now also uses linux as his only OS.

My young friend Zoe has never owned a PC but is getting one shortly...she wants only linux on it because she doesn't like the experiences she's had with windows at college. :D

So that's two converts for the K man :D

My brother does. One friend does. No one else I know does (besides me). On the linux counter site, I think I am one of about 78 registered users in the province of New Brunswick in eastern Canada, whatever that means. ;)

i work as a professor in an information technology department at a local college, so you'd think i'd have more linux people around me! i have a total of 2 friends who use linux as their primary os (that's 3 if you include me), and the college itself uses linux for its web and mail servers. though, there are no linux desktop installs at the college.

there's a lot in Los Angeles of course. but i only got one of my friend's to use linux - he only uses k3b though to burn dvds, but otherwise uses xp - so really no one i know uses linux.

A couple people I know use Linux very peripherally, as in they might use Knoppix on occasion.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen use the Linux box I "snuck in" at work. It is a Pentium PC runing Debian connected to 8 VT terminals. It's been running some inventory utility shell scripts for 2 years now.
There is a LUG in town but I keep seeing their meeting notices after the meeting.

I do, 1 of my friends do, and 1 of my teachers do. that's all

dang..i'm the only person i know who uses linux...suddenly i feel very lonely....

Yeah it's weird. I am the only person that I know who uses linux too. I think a friend of mine wants to run linux on one of his boxes as a file server using Samba. Ive got a buddy in Witchita who is interested. Otherwise don't know a soul. I lived in Japan for a while and nobody uses Linux. Some people know about it. I know a few programmers and even they acted as if Linux is only good for surfing the internet. Windows has such a stranglehold on the market. It's lame, sick, greedy, and hopefully is beginning to change thanks to all the publicity that SCO is generating.

Aside from me, I've installed Linux on one of my parents boxes and for several friends. The city I live in has a fairly active Linux community, as well.

I use it at home and so do my friends. Linux is widely used in our colleges as well.

none..........since no decent games actually work in linux unless one installs
wine/cedega............

and game developers won't support linux because the freeloaders just want the source code and dont want to pay for games............just look at what happened to Tux Racer...........

I am the only person I know (apart from you guys :) )using linux regularly although the hotel I work in uses RH7 for its web and mail server.

I was a computer engineering student for a while (three years). Although almost every other department in the school was heavily into Windows, ours was almost completely focused around *nix. Mainly because we were building hardware and writing device drivers for them. Among other things (like complete "OS"s to drive the boards) where we needed the source to the operating system. That and supporting the same requirements on windows was not financially feasable. Oh, MS would give the school free access for a couple of years (hoping to get them locked into using the products) but then charge huge license fees. The department had been caught like that in the past and chose to migrate rather than pay the extortion.

Anyway, all of our labs were linux based. Or solaris for some things but we didn't do a lot of development on them. There were various other *nix flavors around but linux was the main one used for the labs. Most students (probably about 90%) realized that they needed to work on their projects in their rooms and thus needed Linux on their machines. They either dual-booted or made the switch completely. I was the odd-man out being a BSD user but almost everyone used some form of *nix. It was wonderful.

Now that I am home. One friend might try linux... I'm tempting him. My sister is an occasional user of BSD just because my system always works and the XP machine in the house is... well XP. So it is different for me. I went from a large portion of everyone I knew using Linux to having no one.

As a note: The local LUG was pretty small... considering the population of people who used it. I think it was just because linux was so "ordinary" that no one thought they needed special support. :cool:

I miss those days.

Looks like I'm another who uses Linux but doesn't know anyone else who does where I live. I'm in Toronto, and live right beside UofT campus, so I'm sure there are 1000's of Linux boxes with 1km. But, I'm the only one of my friends who uses Linux.

Looks like we're all trailblazing.... trailblazing is a lonely occupation, it appears. :)

Nearly 50% of the people I work with run stand-alone Linux PC's.

Sether -

I see that your in Los Angeles.

Email me please at:
kg6rir@yahoo.com

I have a few questions for you.

unixfreak

I don't think that's entirely true. I'm not even slightly interested in the source code and in fact I bought C&C, Unreal Tournament and Quake 2 because I knew they WOULD run on linux...and don't forget ID's excellent support for linux. If games were more readily available and reasonably priced (i.e. not Loki prices) then I'm sure more people would buy them. I certainly would if I could just go into Electronic Boutique and pick up what's there.

I'm probably only 1 of 2 or 3 system administrators at my job using Linux as their workstation. We have plenty of Linux admins but when they are not working on Linux servers, they send e-mails and communicate using MS Windows.

I do use "tsclient" do remote into a few windows servers, just so i can use IE which is required for our ticket system

Moved: This thread is more suitable in General, and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Oooppss... I have just decided to switch to FreeBSD for a while... but trust me... I am keeping an eye on the development of linux so that I can come back any time. :)

I am a university student, too. I have been using linux for the past two years, and it was real fun learning it. There are many linux PCs in the Multimedia Center(http://www.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp/e/intro/educational.html). The distro is Vine Linux. A japanese distro.

And I have talked some of my friends in other falculties to use linux. I helped them install linux, answer their questions now and then, though I am not sure how often do they use it.

the only time i ever saw linux on a computer that wasnt mine was at fry's, a lindows one. i knew one person, hte one that got me interested in the first place, but i never talked to him after that time nad i never saw his computer either.

nuka_t; thank you for that site,will do with a follow-through.

And my contribution to the original topic :)

My wife and two teens use Linux, four others here
at my workplace use Linux as a Desktop OS (not
to speak of our servers), and I've met around 20 guys
in the local LUG who obviously use Linux, too :}


Cheers,
Tink

I have an old gateway (a nasty little bugger when it was running windows) running ASP and 5 servers running red hat 8. I know of about 4 people using some form of redhat or suse. I've got about 40 public computers running windows XP with cygwin, but I'm the only one who uses it. I'm trying to convince everyone here at work that linux is the best way to go, but they are a bunch of old ladies who don't want to hear it. Meanwhile they have to listen to me rant about the horrors of microflop.

I use Mandrake 10, my friend uses Mandrake 9.whatever-it-is, (he insists that he has the better deal, and I'm starting to believe him. However he just sold his computer so.... :) ) My friend/teacher has fedora on his laptop. Plus two coyote router boxes I know of. My friend's dad works for SUN, but that doesn't really count. I am trying to convert my family, but they are paranoid about downtime so...
thats all for now

titanium_geek

downtime?

Convert from what? If they're running some kind of
BSE, errrh, BSD maybe ;) ...


Cheers,
Tink

Two others at my school. Everyone calls us Linux-1, Linux-2, and Linux-3.

At work - Everyone I know uses Linux. But, at homes, none ...
:)

Linux Archive

Why do you keep replying to really old threads?

Just one but he's more of a BSD guy.
I have friends that use Mac but it's too expensive for me.

Gentoo

outside of a single job I had about 5 years ago, I've never met anyone who uses linux in real life.

True, it is an old thread, but the question is interesting. So far I saw only one teacher using FC on their laptop and openoffice to show presentation ... rare, and the teacher happen to be a $%#@%$, but that's another story. Technically at most schools they run servers and the servers run Linux usually. Other than that, nobody :)

Linux
 

I've been using Linux off and on for four years, but I've switched officially to Linux for all work and leisure purposes last week (I only use Windows for compatibility testing).

I've got several friends who use Linux (3), one teacher that uses it, and I've gotten my immediate family to make the switch too (that was fun).

When I was in high school, though, I ran DSL in a Qemu window in the school library, and I got in trouble for "hacking." Heheheh.

This is a cool topic. I'm glad somebody dug it up.

Zero. I have to use Linux for everything, but the folks I work with prefer:
OSX
Solaris
WinDuhs

Damn, suckered into another Lazarus thread.

My son has it on his laptop, my father-in-law has it on two of his PC's and my kids school has it running as a server.

none.

a guy I know who doesnt own a computer and has rarely used one, is thinking about buying a laptop, and I've told him that he should just bypass windows completely and go straight to linux (as he's never used MS anyway), but he wont.

apparently, a few of his friends who do networking with MS have said linux will never get anywhere, and that seems to have reinforced his attitude.

shame really, because he's got access to my 3 years knowledge of linux (limited as it is), and he could have learnt alot in a short space of time.

you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink ;)

^ that wouldve been a pretty good case study of how hard linux is. starting from a blank slate i think he would be more competent in general os issues (and not obscure windows issues) in a few months...

SmallTownTech
 

Being trapped in small rural village and being one of two, uh, experts, we have converted three solid users. I set up a very popular band with Studio 12.04.1 and they love the editing tools. Saving money eh? I were surprised to find at least four teenager geeksters run various distros. My wife and teenager both use SolusOS along side their Windows. Our "big" city (7500)county seat has LOTS of Linux users. And they're selling Linux Net-books at our Wally World. Have the Ultimate Edition developer just up the pike so it gets lots of exposure. Hope this is revelant per 6mo. notice. Cheers! We are the future.

Just me, a full time proud linux user.

Me, myself and I. Well actually my wife and three kids do too.