Some snippets from the article :
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Women accounted for 9.9% of the Linux kernel Git population.
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About 90% of Hollywood special effects rely on Linux.
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0.44% of Steam users are playing on Linux.
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“96.3% of the top one million web servers are running Linux. (ZDNet)”
That right there is why Microsoft cares less and less every day about Windows, as Azure continues to grow as the company cash cow.
Their share of the 53% of “professional developers” that do not use Linux keeps them interested on the desktop.
Well, to be fair, the other reason that Microsoft still cares about Windows is that Office is their other cash cow. As more and more people move to Office 365, they will start to care less about that too ( as the web versions work great on Linux ).
I wonder what they’ll do on the corporate side. It’s possible they’ll push to move everybody to VMs and VDIs with everything running in the cloud. It would cut down on expenses for certain classes of employees who can work from a thin client.
The statement about Hollywood is a great one to use when telling people about Linux
They even use System 76 hardware.
Isn’t it way too weak for such use cases? I thought they used some kind of small supercomputers
doesn’t Steam Hardware Survey report way higher percentage of Linux users?
(Statista, Blackdown)
wouldn’t Valve’s numbers be more reliable?
Steam is only installed on one of my computers, I have at least four running Linux. Not to mention plenty of Linux users don’t game at all, so probably not.
What I see is that there is an asymptotic leveling out of the proprietary operating systems. Nothing really improves anymore at that level. On the other hand, the free operating systems are making large strides towards that same level of usability every year.
In the end, if all the OS’s end up at parity function-wise, the free one that doesn’t abuse it’s users privacy is going to come out on top.
