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Originally posted by mikshaw I don't know how anyone could possibly keep an accurate count. If you're talking about market "shares" you can't really compare....most Linux distros are downloaded for free.
Many people try numerous OSs, many have multi-boots, many have offline systems. The only way to get an accurate count is if everyone with a computer responded, honestly, to a poll.
Then how do we get all of our other statistics?
Through random sampling of course. But then again I don't know how you could get a "fair" random sampling of computer users.
Originally posted by Megaman X Cool google statistic. Funny that more users hit google with Windows 95 then Linux. Heck, even "other" OS hit more google then Linux. I thought it was much more then that, but oh well... But it's quite understandable, peoples around the globe think that windows is the only operating system around. Once in a literature class, a teacher of mine asked how to fix a little windows problem with the computer in our class (that the teachers use to write the ones present at the class). She know me very well and she knows that the only thing I do in my life is playing with my computer. I said to her:" I'm not sure, it has been a long time since I used windows". Then she asked "If you don't use Windows, then what do you use?". She is a very intelligent person (unconnected, but also sexy...lol), but do you see what I mean?.
you can look at the statistics in one of two ways....
on one end, 99% of the computers of the world are not using Linux...
on the other end 99% of the virus's are attacking other computer systems...
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