On 23 March 2010 19:46, : robert-william : lewko <[email protected]> wrote:
> IE, is this person who has posted a comment to this article really > based in reality? Is Gnome more popular? > > The answer you're going to get to that question really is community dependant, I'd say. By that I mean that a few years ago, ask that question on this mailing list and the answer would be "no way, KDE is way more popular", because it was among CLUGers. We were very KDE biased, and with any bias comes blinders. :-) Then Ubuntu came on the scene, it started getting recommended around here, and I suspect (though I have no numbers or proof) that Gnome is now more popular in our little microcosm. I would bet that the commenter was just speaking from his own little world view. I don't know of any valid stats on usage. Any numbers I've ever seen have been in places like a poll on Slashdot, which is entirely invalid because a) it's a count of people who like to answer polls, and b) it's affected by the same group bias/peer pressure seen within our own group. If there's one thing to be said for selling proprietary software, it's that at least it makes it easy to count. ;-) Ian
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