While StatCounter’s chart for December doesn’t even show */Linux, they do deliver the goods in a CSV file…
The big takeaway for me is that while over three weeks one can see a declining trend in that other OS (“7″,”8.x”, XP, etc.) */Linux (Android, Chrome OS and GNU) shows a rising trend of similar magnitude. In particular, on weekends when usage of that other OS is down, it’s up for */Linux. Given a choice, real people are preferring FLOSS.
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The simplest explanation? It’s just people taking time off in December – more and more in the preceding weeks to Christmas – and so use of personal devices is increasing over the course of the month.
The rises and falls between weekdays/weekends and as the month progresses bears this explanation out.
And Linux only increases by a few tenths at most, by the way.
It’ll be business as usual in January, I’ll bet.
“Android, Chrome OS and GNU”
Android != Linux
ChromeOS != Linux
Must we go through all that again??
“*/Linux is already in the top 7 but is being ignored.”
The data YOU link to says Linux is ninth, and as Linux is actually *in* StatCounter’s results, how can you then say with a straight face that it is seventh and being “ignored”?
I guess, after ten years of fail, one month of change (incidentally, you need to go back to logarithmic graphs, because that one is nobbut a straight line) is welcome.
If only somebody on this site could actually contribute with a killer application or something. The UK is ripe for it, obviously.
Dougie — time for you to step up!
You are too kind. Linux seems to be in 9th place, trailing 8th place Android by a considerable margin.
bw wrote, “Any prediction as to when the meteoric rise of Linux will move it out of the “other†aggregation and give it a line of its own?”
Ask StatCounter. */Linux is already in the top 7 but is being ignored.
Any prediction as to when the meteoric rise of Linux will move it out of the “other” aggregation and give it a line of its own?