Ubuntu now more popular than Mac OS X!

[deftones12]

correct me if i'm wrong, but all that "google trends" graph is showing is that more people search for "ubuntu" rather than "mac osx" on google.com
that does not at all mean its more popular or that more people are using ubuntu than mac, or debian or any other distro.


edit: i just read 'htregz' full first post and saw that he said the same thing, didn't see that when i skimmed the entire thread the first time. my apologies.

[ByTeWrangler]

Greeting's

JPnyc ... are you the original "JP"? ... "the founder"

ROFL... Man what did you feel when you were compared with JP ... THE FOUNDER

[Nokia]

Probably very insulted! And rigthly so!

[JPnyc]

Not at all, given the same initials and administrating this particular forum, it was a logical question to ask.

[[WebCarnage]]

Who cares if Ubuntu is gaining in popularity? Ubuntu, along with every other Debian based distro, sucks anyways.

[nihil]

I am always very wary of these "statistics".............MS make claims for XP based on machines being shipped currently, but there is still a very large user base for Windows 2000.

HT~ is on the money IMO, in that these are searches. Ubuntu is relatively new and I guess that a lot of people are just trying it out, which is why they are looking for help.

Honestly, I would not expect this of the old established distros that most probably have a much more experienced userbase.

Similarly, Apple OSes are pretty intuitive, so I would not expect the same degree of traffic there. After all OS X is intended to be sold off the shelf to the general public, just like Windows.

I agree that Linspire seems the closest linux type distro at present, and I don't really see it having any problem with "losing its identity" as it is aimed at a market that couldn't care less?

Just my thoughts

[Nokia]

Persoanally if I was searching for help with Ubunbtu I would go straight to Google and search from there, however I was needing help with say Windows XP I would first go to microsoft.com and search the site from there.........Once less hit for Windows XP on Google...........

[gore]

I guess I'll hop in and give my opinion. OPINION.

I don't like Ubuntu. I've used it a few times, and it has potential, but really, I first off don't like no root account by default crap. I also don't really care for it overall though I think, as I said, it does have potential to be somethin, it just isn't there yet to me.

They are going the right way with getting bigger companies to support it on servers a little, but the distro itself really isn't much more than a few less enter key taps during install from Debian.

I Miss Libranet. That was a good Debian based distro that wasn't a copy of it. It had a nice little admin panel, a really good Kernel Recompiling tool, but at the same time had Debian's apt-get system and fit on one or two CDs.

Anyone who's serious about a Linux distro that's actually good for competing with Windows in the Server and desktop area, would be looking at SUSE, maybe RedHat though I don't like them much, and possibly Mandrake.

I don't use Mandrake either but the ease of use has always been there. SUSE gives a good idea of how things could be and ti's not like Novell is going anywhere. They also offer actual support.

For ease of use, I think Linux is actually starting to outdo Microsoft. An example is making a bootable CD.

In Windows it's finding a CD burner program since Windows itself won't do that, and then learning to use it, then burning the thing and hoping you set the write settings.

On SUSE in KDE:

Click on.... I'll use an example:

Click on SlackwareLinux11-disc1.iso

...And you're done. It loads up K3B, K3B checks the MD5sum and then click on burn.

Whoo, hard huh?

[deftones12]

installing a printer in linux is 10x faster and easier than windows too.
computer picked up the printer (usb), all that was needed was root's password and it was added.
thats with cups enabled btw.
no drivers or software installation or anything.

[dalek]

In Windows it's finding a CD burner program since Windows itself won't do that

Err which Windows OS is that one, as far as I know,all WMP's can burn/copy

As for Ubuntu, I only started to learn about linux and found this to be the easiest for me...also the figures may be skewed because when I received my discs, I got 6 of them sort of pass them around type thing..so maybe the numbers aren't factual. But if you read the forums, there is a lot of interest, espescially from people who are considering the move from Windows to Linux...it's called marketing and Ubuntu pushed it out...