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Latest Comments by Shmerl
Supraland is leaving GOG after less than a year, dev says sales were low
9 Jun 2020 at 7:09 pm UTC Likes: 2

Sounds like developers can't get on board with DRM-free idea and are looking for excuses. Too bad.

Cyberpunk point and click 'VirtuaVerse' is out now and looks incredible
9 Jun 2020 at 5:19 am UTC

Just got to the part where Nathan subscribes the mechanic to some service and the later gets bombarded with spam he can't unsubscribe from. Hilarious sequence, I was laughing hard :D

What are you clicking on this weekend? Come tell us
7 Jun 2020 at 2:05 am UTC

Just finished TW3 (it's a very long game), so I started VirtuaVerse. It's pretty good, but some things are pretty hard to figure out.

The Linux market share still appears to be rising
3 Jun 2020 at 5:33 pm UTC

Quoting: randylFrom an analytics perspective, I don't feel it is misleading at all. Misleading would tell something that isn't. It's incomplete, not misleading. Reasonable conclusions can be drawn from the data such as a minimum floor of specific users. For example we could know that 10% of all users are Linux based and of those at least 47% are Ubuntu based. That doesn't mean there aren't more, so the conclusion we can draw is that a FLOOR value of people use Ubuntu. We can't draw a conclusion that there are exactly 'X' number of users, but that fuzzy set is still useful. It can be added to other sets of data as a point of reference too.
Sure, if you analyze it correctly, you can draw proper conclusions. Misleading means that it's easy to draw incorrect conclusions if you treat it as "look, Ubuntu must have this percentage". Which I easily can see happening.

The Linux market share still appears to be rising
2 Jun 2020 at 11:04 pm UTC

Quoting: KuJoIt depends on the browser used and from which sources it was installed.
Which means this method is pretty useless if not even misleading for analyzing distros data.

Lenovo adding Ubuntu & Red Hat on their entire ThinkStation and ThinkPad P lines
2 Jun 2020 at 8:02 pm UTC Likes: 5

Would be good to extend it to all their Thinkpads. I'd appreciate this more than adding more distros.

The Linux market share still appears to be rising
2 Jun 2020 at 6:39 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweChromeOS is separate in NetMarketShare.
OK, thanks for clarifying.

The Linux market share still appears to be rising
2 Jun 2020 at 6:31 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestMaybe more devs working from home on their own Linux machines, freer of corporate constraints ?
Another option is uptick in Chromebooks that schools give out to children for remote learning. Not sure if ChromeOS is reported as something else or as Linux.

The Linux market share still appears to be rising
2 Jun 2020 at 6:20 pm UTC

Quoting: x_wingUser agent reports that information:
https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent [External Link]
I don't see anything about the distro in mine:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

So I'd consider it a very unreliable method for that.

The Linux market share still appears to be rising
2 Jun 2020 at 6:08 pm UTC

How does NetMarketShare analyze the distro? Browsers don't report it, so how do they even know what's Ubuntu and what's not?