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More Users Running Linux than Vista

According to a recent poll at the electrogeek.com blog the number users running the Linux operating system exceeded the number of users running Windows Vista.

Currently 22 percent of users polled are running Linux as opposed to 21 percent who are running Windows Vista as their primary operating system. It would be interesting to see how the percentages change as the total number of votes increases.

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Breakfast5881d ago (Edited 5881d ago )

Too bad the same cant be said about the real world.

Edit: Im sorry but your campus aint the real world too. Look at sales figures and you'll see vista has way more users than linux. Not that i have anything against linux, im just saying.

Alcaponedyou5881d ago

i see more mac on my campus than vistas about 90% (500-800 size classes)
I for one, use ubuntu primarily and vista for (when it comes) sc2 until wine makes it compatible.

Breakfast5881d ago

So your trying to telling me that more people run Linux over Vista...The only people who know what Linux is, are tech savvy people. Ill go do my own survey in streets, how many people know what Linux is, and what it offers that vista cant. People might know what it is, but they wont know jack crap about it.

TheSadTruth5881d ago

You are right Breakfast, ignore the troll

Stryfeno15881d ago

Agreed...Vista is way more popular then Linux...This poll is bias.

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Meus Renaissance5881d ago

That's a lie. Why are people hyping Linux? I have no issue with it but all these comparisons are pointless, Windows will remain the dominant OS regardless if we like it or not.

Writing stupid misleading articles like this stinks

gw4k5881d ago

Linux is incredible! It really is 10x the os than any ms product.

Look at the major governments and companies that use it! Watch and learn there Meus Renaissance. Windows will be dominant for years longer, no doubt about that. But opensource linux is making serious ground!

ArmrdChaos5881d ago (Edited 5881d ago )

Until they can make a version of Linux that is easy to install/use/manage for the common person (NO tech background) then they will never pose any serious threat to Windows. When Vista first came out I said it would be the WinME of this decade. It just always seemed like Vista was just something to tide people over until Windows 7 actually made it out...kind of like WinME to XP. I deal with Vista in a work environment and don't have any problems with using it, but I will personally will not upgrade until I see a little more substance to do so...maybe Windows 7.

Thugbot1875881d ago

You nailed it right on the head. Vista is like another ME, something to hold people over till Windows 7 and 8. As for Linux you’re so right about Linux and how they have a long way to go. If it was back in the NT4/Win95 verse Linux days, the Linux people had a valid fight (I was one on Linux side). After the release of Windows 2000/XP, Linux was just out classed, let’s not forget the Linux community sees running the GUI a security risk. Do we really want to go back to the DOS days?

UrbanJabroni5881d ago

It is official! Forget the fact that 95%+ of all businesses are running windows platforms, this is the official start of the rise of Linux!

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All Hopes I Had For A Prey Sequel Have Been Crushed — Well Done, Microsoft

The magnificent Prey was once again abandoned as Microsoft disregarded Arkane Austin's achievements and crucified it just for Redfall.

RaidenBlack20h ago

well, not entirely ... the main Arkane studio i.e Arkane Lyon's still there ...
Its only that, the sequel will take more time now ... after Blade & Dishonored 3

MrBaskerville44m ago

But who knows, Dishonored 3 could have been Austins next project, so might be cancelled.

-Foxtrot19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

Not even this Prey

Still longing for a sequel to the original Prey with Tommy

The studio didn't even want to call this Prey, it was just Bethesda being dicks to them for some reason.

RaidenBlack13h ago

MS closed Roundhouse Studios (ex-Human Head Studios) as well

Yui_Suzumiya3h ago

Yeah, that's who was going to do the original sequel.

isarai10h ago

Came here to say this, my hooes for a Prey sequel died when this "Prey" came out

Profchaos1h ago

Prey 2017 still hurts to play because what could have been looked so incredible

Profchaos1h ago

Same Bethesda basically screwed over the original developer team human head back around 2011 so it was really never going to come despite a honestly amazing trailer. I liked prey 2017 but it always held a stink of disappointment due to what we never got

LostPotato18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

Keep dreaming then as Prey and Dishonored 2 did not sell well enough to get sequels.

Hence we got Deathloop and Redfall instead.

RaidenBlack13h ago

lol, Deathloop came from Prey: Mooncrash idea

Unknown_Gamer57942h ago

To everyone who cheered MS’s acquisitions, we told you so…

Inverno1h ago

Those people will just argue that Arkane Austin and Tango would've been shut down either way.

MrBaskerville41m ago

Zenimax allready put them in a tight spot by demanding them to do a multiplayer title. So it's not unlikely, considering how bad the game performed. They didn't stand a chance. MS had the money to save them and to correct Zenimax' mistakes.

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Helldivers 2 Star Wars Mod Looks Pretty Insane

Star Wars is coming to Helldivers 2, unofficially that is, as a new mod revamps in-game models and sends players to a galaxy far, far, away.

thejigisup4h ago

To you. What makes them interesting?

repsahj3h ago

This is the reason they cancel the psn link.

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Would It Have Even Mattered If Redfall Were Good?

Even if Redfall were a good game, the closure of Hi-Fi Rush proves even that doesn't matter in the industry.

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Profchaos7h ago

Yeah it would have mattered especially since their huge game that year wasn't all that it was cracked up to be remember redfail was almost heavily promoted and hyped not to the level of starfield but still more promoted than the average game.

There was still a decent marketing campaign behind the game I'm sure millions were spent advertising it on websites and I saw a few billboards and bus stop signs in real life

jwillj2k46h ago

No it wouldn’t matter it wouldn’t bring in enough profit to offset their 100 billion dollar acquisition. It would maybe delay the inevitable by some months.

CrimsonWing696h ago

I would f*cking think so. Good games are what draws people to your platform. It’s why I adored the 360 era with Gears of War being one of the highlights for me. You make sh*t games and it just makes your platform that much worse and you start gobbling up studios I like and then killing them off it also makes me hate your platform as well… just sayin’

franwex6h ago

Unless the game would’ve been War Zone, or Fortnite level. No. Maybe even Hell divers 2 I doubt would’ve been enough.

Exvalos5h ago

No it would not have, the ABK deal was great for Microsoft but horrible for Xbox. Over 100 billion dollars in acquisitions. That money has to be made back. That ABK deal essentially destroyed Xbox as we know it.

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