It’s been a while since I cranked out a nice SVG… so I looked at GNU/Linux desktop OS usage according to StatCounter and found Uruguay is doing as usual but I zeroed in on Germany which has broken out above 3% share of page-views. That’s serious. There’s been rather consistent growth since about 2009. There’s no end in sight. I like that. Keep it up, Germany! What you’re doing is working despite all the forces Wintel deployed against you.
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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. Now that I'm retired I still use GNU/Linux on every computer in my home except the smartphones which run Android/Linux.Lately, I've been giving lots of thought to the world I inherited and which I will leave to my descendants. I'm planting grass, trees, flowers and vegetables in my large lot and I've ordered a Solo EV. I plan to charge my Solo by means of a tracking solar array. Life is good if you have a purpose. I do.
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kurkosdr, dismissive of FLOSS, wrote, ” Let’s see if any decent third-party proprietary software comes out of it…”.
The measure of the success of an OS is not whether folks write software for it but how many people find it useful without that. It’s a “chicken and egg” thing. First cometh the OS, then the software. We are still at the stage that ARM would rather not sell its stuff than let us use a proper driver for its video processor. Despite */Linux being ARM’s bread and butter, they are not contributing drivers to the kernel whole-heartedly. That’s a mistake. Hardware and software are a unit, not two products that can each earn ARM revenue. They have to ship software to ship devices. No kidding. Folks are still using Linux 3.x with ARMed devices these days. What’s with that? */Linux is a successful OS yet ARM is not seeing the big picture, like so many makers of hardware did 15-20 years ago. My cute little Odroid-C2 does everything well except full-screen video simply because folks still have to build from source to get a GNU/Linux distro to work well. For the Odroid-C2, the only software I know that does video well does so by skipping X to compensate for the limitations of the video driver. Wayland could be another year before bearing fruit. Why is ARM making people wait? Instead of relying on sellers of various devices reinventing the wheel, ARM should just take a shortcut to kernel.org and contribute the code. Then I’d buy 4 or 5 Odroid-C2s this month. This is the 21st century and GNU/Linux running on the Odroid-C2 still uses a frame-buffer instead of a proper driver…
Wow, a PogChart which shows real growth, not statistical noise. So… GNU/Linux is evolving into a market. Let’s see if any decent third-party proprietary software comes out of it…
dougman wrote, “Muslim immigrants, the population is set to rise to twenty million by 2020”.
Unlikely and no concern at all. Does anyone worry that most are now protestants and catholics? Nope. We are all human and diversity results in resilience and strength.
So are Muslim immigrants, the population is set to rise to twenty million by 2020. https://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitung/kommunales/detailansicht-kommunales/artikel/dramatischer-appell.html
“Islam scholar Lamya Kaddor said on German television that “being German” in future will not mean having blonde hair and blue eyes, but being a Muslim migrant and wearing a hijab.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK-U6Eaiz3g