Reply With QuoteActually, you can read that to mean the EXACT OPPOSITE. In other words, if people KNOW about it, they are LESS likely to perform a general google search for it.
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Is Linux losing popularity?!
When Ubuntu came it was a breath of fresh air. It brought many new Linux users. However, even as an ardent Debian user, I find the latest Google Trend curve for "Ubuntu" quite a bit disturbing - http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu
What is happening?! From the graph it seems the positive Ubuntu effect (which is positive for all Linux users) is not only dying off, but also decreasing. What could be the reason? Is it a general trend for Linux? Brrr... Or is something else?
What could be going on?! Any speculation is valid as such!
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Actually, you can read that to mean the EXACT OPPOSITE. In other words, if people KNOW about it, they are LESS likely to perform a general google search for it.
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Yes, that is what I first though of too. However, we are nowhere near the saturation point for that to have happened. Not in the same ballpark, by far.Originally Posted by droidhacker
Look at
* iPhone (hardware) - http://www.google.com/trends?q=iPhone
* Photoshop (software)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Photo...ate=all&sort=0
*Android (OS) http://www.google.com/trends?q=Andro...ate=all&sort=0
I am not saying that Linux i going away, just that the general awareness (hype) may be slowing down. Maybe that is good, in one sense, sort of - to get rid of unfounded hype.
But, since there are new developers entering the market every day, perhaps with a different mindset than 30+ developers have, I think this is worrying. They may think of Linux as that complicated geek layer underneath Android...
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be sure linux is populary people "Womans" with ZERO computer skills ask me about linux... because they have windows7 on there computer!!!!
yes no joke!
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According to this it's not:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/linux...cord-high.html
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But, that is w3schools.com which is described at http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/w3schools.com as "Includes collection of web building tutorials.".
Their audience appears to be highly more likely to use Linux than other parts of society. I think Google Trends is more neutral in that respect, even if actual web server logs are the way to go. It would be nice to see those of http://www.ebay.com/ or some other non-techie neutral site. The Alexa Audience Demographics make it look fairly neutral (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ebay.com).
On the other hand, there is always www.top500.org if these numbers mskr you feel a bit down.
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http://www.top500.org/stats/list/35/osfamOn the other hand, there is always www.top500.org if these numbers mskr you feel a bit down.
Sorry for the ugly formatting, but I don't know how to make proper tables.Code:OS N Share Rmax Sum Rpeak Sum Processors Linux 455 _91.00 % 27162011 41989385 3774451 Windows __5 __1.00 % __412590 __509350 __59072 Unix _22 __4.40 % _1479895 _1891787 _118930 BSD __1 __0.20 % __122400 __131072 ___1280 Mixed _17 __3.40 % _3257787 _3948902 1177728 Totals 500 100.00 % 32434684 48470496 5131461
Unfortunately, these aren't the desktop numbers.
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Yeah, and programming itself is loosing popularity too. Some day people shall stop writing software, it will just emerge from the internet.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=programming
Actually, trends mean that Internet became accessible and popular. More consumers — more consumer product search request.
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Nooooooo!!! The Master System is also loosing popularity :'(
http://www.google.com/trends?q=master+system
On the other hand Meego is gaining popularity exponentialy:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=meego
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.... only because of its association with "mobile" and "intel" and SOOOO MANY people are suffering with poulsbo and need the drivers that intel *HOPEFULLY* will eventually provide for meego.
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