On 6/9/20 9:05 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
his 160 x 90 pixel slides showing current market share for Windows, Mac, and then Linux "You might notice that some platforms have a higher market share than Linux does," he says with a laugh, describing one slide showing Linux as "scooping up the bottom of the barrel at 1.6%..." It amazes me how people are so focussed on the Desktop market, but completely ignore the very much larger embedded devices market and
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 08:42:00AM +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote: the possibly much smaller, but nevertheless very important, server market, where Linux dominates, when making these pronouncements of why Linux sucks or is doomed.
(It would be interesting to see some numbers for these other markets and I would be extremely surprised if it did not show Linux in a very healthy state.)
Cheers, Michael.
I agree. It surprises me that with the rise of the Raspberry Pi series there hasn't been a spike in "linux" searches since 2012. Also, if you are interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence programming, Linux is really the way to go. I love this series of talks by Bryan. I think a lot of subjects could use an "X Sucks" talk where issues can be presented in an open and low-stakes manner.