I just posted this on my blog, let’s here it.
Thanks for sharing this, John.
Interesting to see the traffic shift you’re tracking and how clearly it lines up with recent desktop changes. Appreciate you posting your write-up here.
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I can’t speak with any certainty about Linux actually being used on the desktop, but I have often wondered, “Why not?” The strong networking presence has been there almost as soon as it’s been commercially available; TCP/IP entered the UNIX space in the eighties and as soon as it was affordable it became available on PCs. When mobile device use greatly increased that finally help tilt the real Linux numbers everywhere EXCEPT the desktop. Mobile technology Is where Linux and BSD kernels have ruled for years but still the desktop lagged behind. I think the Microsoft entry into Cloud computing spelled the practical end to their desktop reign and probably opened the desktop doors at last for Linux.
Other thoughts on this?
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@Brian_Masinick I agree Brian, MS worked very hard to corner the market. OS2 Warp was far superior to Windows yet, somehow they still managed to get kill any manufactured from installing anything other than Windows on their PC’s.
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@DeLinuxCo the one thing about OS2 Warp that missed was not the superiority, it was the recognition of every day consumers. Say what you will, but Microsoft was the first software company to consider and simplify the user experience for ordinary consumers. Before Microsoft most systems were for large companies, engineers and scientists.
IBM understood those markets, but took a long time to understand every day consumers and eventually sold off their entire consumer lines to focus on the markets they did understand. Lenovo has owned the previous IBM consumer lineup for about two decades now.
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