Comments on: Ubuntu Was More Popular Than Britney Spears In 2009

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:01:00 +0000

lmfao on britney’s comparison lol.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:48:00 +0000

Ubuntu = Humanity towards others. It’s not just an operating system it’s a thriving community that believe in this ancient African value. It’s not about you, it’s about helping others get the best experience out of their operating system (and hardware).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:04:00 +0000

Despite what one might think about Linux being for experts I was really surprised at how good the Ubuntu forums are in terms of helping the new Linux user. Regardless of your experience and expertise there’s always a good answer for everyone in the Ubuntu forums.
Windows forums –on the other hand– those really are for EXPERTS. I remember being laughed at, insulted at, and humiliated in those horrible forums.

By: rio2000

rio2000 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:12:00 +0000

ubuntu rocks….. next 3 years ubuntu more popular tahan windows :p

By: Yfrwlf

Yfrwlf — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:25:00 +0000

Don’t believe stats. Microsoft says Linux is bigger than Mac, that website says Linux is 5%, the other says its 0.5%, that says it’s 2%, that says 1%. How can you trust stats when you have all those opinions available to choose from? What made you choose the 1% stats out of all the others?

I think it’s a very legitimate question to ask.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:36:00 +0000

Thank God it was!!!! :)

By: Jeffrey Vandenborne

Jeffrey Vandenborne — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:33:00 +0000

Sometimes I don’t mind that Linux is still outnumbered by Windows. I feel that the Linux community is very big, that’s probably because the biggest part of Linux users are technical users, IT experts, programmers, etc. Even with such a low amount compared to windows, I always get answered within 10 minutes if I ask a question on the Ubuntu forums. I would not mind if all the less technical people from Windows will convert to Linux slowly, we can make Linux applications without having to care about wether if works in Windows or not. On second thought though, our community will change a lot. We won’t be the ‘smarter people using a better operating system, because we can’. I like it how it is now really, if the market share goes down, I wouldn’t mind because I know that I can do the stuff people on Windows can, with lots of advantages and that would make me feel smarter than the rest :D. And for games, you can play a lot of games in Linux, and nevertheless I don’t think computers are made for playing games. The price of windows, office, anti virus, licences, etc. is equal to the price of a game console.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:27:00 +0000

I thought that Win7 would kill Ubuntu’s steam for the first few months of it’s release because of the marketing MS is putting behind it and all the nice reviews it got on the internet, but damn Ubuntu is really holding on and it’s still growing. I’m very impressed!

It’s clear that Ubuntu is growing if you see the changes Canonical is making internally, the new teams it’s hiring and how it’s handling the development of 10.04 LTS which is pretty stable for an Alpha 1. I believe this LTS will be the most stable Ubuntu release yet. It will look more mature, modern, it will be smarter, faster friendlier etc. 2010 looks like a really good year for us!

By: devolute

devolute — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:43:00 +0000

I truly think that 2010 is the year of Christina Aguilera on the desktop. erm…

By: Alison Pitt

Alison Pitt — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:53:00 +0000

I’m not surprised at the market share not growing overall, despite user figures increasing; it’s just an indication that the overall market is growing, which in itself is an indication of the consumer market growing generally worldwide. I actually think it’s a positive thing that Ubuntu has managed to hold its market share despite some heavy competition from the likes of Windows 7…Nonetheless, Ubuntu won’t make any massive inroads until it can effectively crack business customers, which will be a big chunk of that WinXP share. It’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next couple years, and especially to see if Ubuntu makes any gains with the release of Lucid LTS.

By: Matt Dunio

Matt Dunio — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:56:00 +0000

Arch deserves to be higher up on that distrowatch list.