Subj : Re: Community
To   : DustCouncil
From : tenser
Date : Sat Oct 08 2022 01:12:01

On 06 Oct 2022 at 05:19p, DustCouncil pondered and said...
 
 Du>  bo>  te> More argument from anecdote. This is a well-known logical
 Du>  bo>  te> fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_anecdote
 Du> 
 Du>  bo> You're argumentation style is really nothing but trying to find
 Du>  bo> technicalities to nit-pick on, while militantly trying to avoid
 Du>  bo> understanding what is being meant.
 Du> 
 Du> Either saying Linux *is* or *is not* niche is argument-from-anecdote. 
 Du> Absent statistics gathered in a way everyone is happy with, there's no
 Du> index to verify either claim.

I dunno.  There are statistics that are easily accessible:

  https://truelist.co/blog/linux-statistics/

It is known that Linux runs on _all_ of the machines on the
top 500 supercomputer list, 85% of smart phones, and 96% of
the top 1,000,000 web servers.  That's not "niche" by any
reasonable definition, even if Linux _desktop_ use is fairly
niche.  Still you've got ChromeBooks and things like that.

Linux is big business.

 Du> I've never seen a survey like this which indicated there was much use of
 Du> desktop Linux.  Be absolutely happy to take a look at one if someone has
 Du> one.

The thing is, limiting the definition of whether an operating
system is "niche" or not to desktop usage isn't a particularly
meaningful measure, particularly as desktop usage declines.

In the context of discussing who controls the direction of the
system's development, it seems strange to ignore non-desktop
use, when that's _by far_ the most common form of use.

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