Windows 7 on netbooks: Maybe it's not a Linux killer

You would love that wouldn't you

You'd love it if the people insulting Linshit actually had no experience with it, but that's not the case.

As OS market share reports show, people dipped a toe in the waters of desktop Linux, found that it's better to just pay for Windows and bailed.

I've been using Linux on servers and the desktop for around 10 years. For servers it's mediocre, but solid (wouldn't want to try to administer desktops with it), but on the desktop it's flaky as hell.

X crashes all the time, distros don't work from one release to the next, regressions are the norm; it's a hit-and-miss shitfest.

The only retort you have left is, 'But it's free!!1!one' So what, I can afford Windows, it runs all the apps I need and hasn't had a bluescreen problem since XP (which shows just how out of touch you Freetards are).

debunked

Quoting Net Applications "market share" instantly discredits yourself as it has been debunked repeatedly. Microsoft doesn't even believe or use the 1% number. They say Linux is their greatest threat in all markets -- larger than Apple. Since it affects Microsoft, they spend the money to do the research and know more about it than you do.

So is statcounter wrong too?

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-200908-200910

Microsoft doesn't even believe

Someone played the "Microsoft card" at SJVNs blog entitled "Where is the Linux desktop going?". A link to the blog post:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15068/where_is_the_linux_desktop_going#comment

Microsoft's slide is very "pretty", probably from a PowerPoint presentation. And it is labeled with "internal sources", giving no clue what those sources are.

If the desktop Linux market share is 50% larger than Apple Mac OS X, why don't we have an iTunes port for Linux? Think of all the music Apple could sell to desktop Linux users. Why can't desktop Linux users easily interface with the iPod and iPhone? Mr. Jobs could actually retire with all the money to be made from desktop Linux users.

Don't be hypnotized by "pretty" Microsoft slides labeled with "internal sources".

Could be

Could be because most Linux users would not buy any music whatsoever from Apple anyway and they know it.

DRM-ridden things? No thanks.

DRM?

iTunes Plus DRM-free since January '09.

Clearly

you don't actually use Linux.

you may be a ham...

... but you're not funny. And anyone with as much experience as you claim to have, would know better.

In fact, people with far less experience than you claim to have, know better, as do those with far more, for example those working for Fortune 500 corporations IT departments.

(PS. I've personally been using Linux (mostly Debian) as my own, day-in, day-out desktop for a mere 8 or 9 years -- so I know better, too).

PS: And why would anybody take hitslinks stats as an even plausibly representative sample -- leaving aside their habit of retroactively revising their numbers, and failure to give a proper methodology -- the fact that their numbers are based on stats collected from their own customers (and their business is proving Windows-centric servises and re-brandable Windows binaries to those customers) make their data non-representative and statistically meaningless. Meanwhile Ballmer himself is acknowledging that Linux is at least or more common than Mac.