Re: Moving From ProTools to Linux? Good or bad?

Richard Crowley wrote:
"Jay Ts" wrote ...
Richard Crowley wrote:
"Linux - Still chasing that elusive 1% market share."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2179

By far (and I mean "really far") most Linux systems are installed from
free downloads. They are not counted in "market share", either by
sales, or in estimates of installed systems.

Those stats are gathered from web servers which collect numbers on the
browsers' operating systems.

Then they shouldn't be calling it market share.

OK, I dug down a bit into the link to the site the stats
came from, and they the data is collected from web servers,
and not from sales figures from manufacturers.

But, it's not clear how they were determining the OS,
and what cross-section of computer users was represented or counted.

Are they collecting from U.S. visitors, or worldwide?
I suspect they are showing U.S. data only, so they aren't
getting users from China, and several governments and
national school systems globally that have switched to Linux,
including states within India. Counting visitors to a web server
in one of those areas might get very different numbers.

Sorry to be so argumentative, but over the past 15 years, I've
read so many stories of Linux being undercounted due to improper
data collection methods that I don't believe anything on the
subject any more!

Ironically, many of those web servers are themselves Linux, because if
you are running a server you presumably have higher-level resources to
support it than your average client computer user.

That's going to be true no matter what OS is in use for the web servers.
And this has little to do with running Linux on the desktop.

Jay Ts
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