Re: Linux on Desktops -- Are there stats anywhere?

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

And vote with your pocket-book!
You _are_ the client in this case.

Say `Sorry but your software is broken under Linux, and that's
what I use.  If you're not interested in fixing it, then I'll be
interested in switching banks.'

:-)


Cynbe ru Taren wrote:

> The usual people (IDT?) quoted Linux at about 2-3% of desktop market
> last I remember (3-6 months ago), putting it #3 behind Windows and
> MacOS.
> 
> Best I remember, about 6-8% server market penetration was where
> suddenly all the server people started supporting Linux, and 10-12%
> was the market penetration that Apple used to estimate that it needed
> to maintain to retain the support of third-party software providers.

> Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> writes:
> 
> > My bank rolled out a new version of web banking, which has a bug in
> > Java Script. I sent them a bug report, to which I got a polite reply
> > which boils down to ``Tough luck. We don't test on Linux.''
> > 
> > I'm writing a letter to them, and would like to include some
> > statistics as to how many desktop computers run Linux nowadays.