Re: [News] Ubuntu GNU/Linux Too Easy to Set Up, New Release Promising
Re: [News] Ubuntu GNU/Linux Too Easy to Set Up, New Release Promising
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linonut
<linonut@bollsouth.nut>
wrote
on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 07:42:39 -0400
<sSIKj.3845$DY1.157@bignews5.bellsouth.net>:
> * The Ghost In The Machine peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
>>>>
>>>> Googling for "Windows problems" yeilded about 18,500,000 results
>>>> Googling for "Ubuntu problems" yielded 1,060,000 results.
>>>
>>> Considering Linux has 0.6 percent of the desktop, Windows wins.
>>
>> Assuming these figures is correct, Moshe is correct.
>
> Nah. First of all, that's just for "Ubuntu".
It's a big assumption. ;-) Of course, that makes it
even worse; if Linux is only using 0.6% of the Desktop
(disputable in itself), how much of the desktop does
Ubuntu have? That just makes it bigger -- were this to
have any validity at all.
>
> Second, our poor concentration-camp survivor assumes that it is all
> desktop problems. Could be close, though, with Ubuntu.
I'll admit to wondering what kinds of "problems" these
counts reflect. Google in particular has some interesting
characteristics; if one does a multiword search such as
"Iraq war tanks", some of the searches will include "Iraq",
some on "war", and some on "tanks" -- this is not that
hard to see on a 10-link "page".
(For that particular query, one also gets hits on "Iraq
war", but one rather amusing hit is titled "Iraq War Movies
Tank at the Box Office" -- from KCRW, an FM station located
in Santa Monica, CA. Of course, Iraq war movies probably
involve armored artillery in some form, but clearly "tanks"
is found here in a completely different context.)
>
> Third, duplicates, undoubtedly massive, are ignored in both cases.
>
> Fourth, perhaps more Windows problems are solved by going to a friend
> rather than to the web.
One of the more interesting Windows issues, that.
>
>> Windows problems: 18,500,000 over 99.4% of the populace
>> Linux problems: 1,060,000 over 0.6% of the populace
>>
>> Windows problems per %: 18,611.67
>> Linux problems per %: 1,766,666.7
>>
>> Clearly, Windows wins if one uses this particular calculation method.
>>
>> A slightly more accurate calculation would include OSX, of course.
>
> The "calculations" would, however, still be garbage.
>
The calculations are OK, but, like dividing the number
of penguins in a zoo by the size of one's fountain pen,
the result is essentially meaningless.
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