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On 15/09/10 13:26, Gibbs wrote: > > The myth of Linux having a low desktop user base (it > has to be over 1% - surely!) also doesn't help to attract the money makers. Unless everyone is spoofing their user agent strings in browsers Linux share of traditional desktops in the English speaking world is around 1%, but it is incredibly unevenly distributed making accurate measurement hard. Techies - lots of GNU/Linux, some sites up to 40%, Chess players around 5%, general public 0.9% Linux (although there is considerably uncertainty in the measurement), averages out at around 1.1%. Basically the smarter and more knowledgeable about computers an audience is the more GNU/Linux is used, whether that is cause or effect I leave to the reader. I'm basing most of that on a log file that collects data from over 600 websites with no obvious OS bias, although I have some chess specific sites, and some techie sites. Nearly all these are in English or have an English language bias, results for Brazil or China are likely to be quite different. We've had a lot of discussion of this in the past, so check the archive, but the change in the last year has been pretty small. Of course web browsing isn't the only thing people use computers for, and my data shows little mobile phone usage for web browsing (which might be different for say social networking sites with mobile phone features). Wikipedia article claims 1.33% but their attribution is buried in the article, which is easily within error bounds of my 1.1% since I have some "unknown" to divvy up which would increase the 1.1% observed slightly. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq