gentoo forum users and their os

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cbock · Post by **cbock** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:16 pm

just an observation that i find kind of funny.

my website tracks referrers and gives me a bit of info about each hit the site gets including the operating system. since joining this forum a few months ago my site has received a few hits from here as i included my website in my profile. of those that have visited, all but one listed some form of windows as the os. of course, i'm typing this from my xp laptop. so, i guess i'm just as guilty. anyhow, i wonder what the stats are for this site? what size piece of the pie does linux account for here? i would have expected different stats on my site.

ewan.paton · Post by **ewan.paton** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:22 pm

im typing this on konquror but if there was a tracker it would probably say internet explorer, the reason is lots of sites woulnt let you in or give lots of warnings unless you have your browser set to identify itselve as ie6

porodzila · Post by **porodzila** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:23 pm

a lot of forum time seems to be spent at work or school. Although, I convinced them to let me use a linux box at school .

pizen · Post by **pizen** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:26 pm

The only time you'll catch me surfing the web from windows is if I'm waiting for a CD to be imported into iTunes so I can put it on my iPod (I got sick of crappy iPod support in Linux).

Ian · Post by **Ian** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:33 pm

I think a lot of people have Linux running at home, but in work or school they have a bit of downtime, and decide to cruise over here and help out or ask some questions, or just waste time.

Or, for all you know, that could all just be from everyone who comes on Windows to find out about switching to something a bit better

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ewan.paton · Post by **ewan.paton** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:16 pm

yeh i have windows 2000 at work

i never knew it was possible to make a 2.4 ghz p4 slower than my very old laptop, its quite a knack to have a desktop os that needs to be retarted every day to remain stable. i hadent touched windows for months till i started that job and it wasnt a pleasant reunion

cbock · Post by **cbock** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:21 pm

i'm thinking that you're spot on Ian.

nejiron · Post by **nejiron** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:15 pm

i had win2K at work but I just changed it over to Mandrake on monday. didnt want to spend time getting Gentoo configured, although i am running Gentoo on my other box at work

rcx21000 · Post by **rcx21000** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:53 pm

I usually only come here when I am having problems with Gentoo. Usually they are bad enough that I have to use my old laptop that doesn't like linux (or mabye it is becuase I'm too lazy to spend time on it). But now I am coming more and more when I don't have problems

abzs2k · Post by **abzs2k** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:25 pm

I am typing this from IE6,XP (guilty as charged). As I have said numerous times I primarily use the Windows eXPerience for my multimedia.

Slyde · Post by **Slyde** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:16 am

Windows from work and home atm

cbock · Post by **cbock** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:45 am

slyde wrote:Windows from work and home atm

why do i suddenly feel like i should have said m$ windows in my original thread.

playfool · Post by **playfool** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:01 am

Typing this from Fedora Core 2, Epiphany (mozilla).

Not guilty as charged, I avoid bad software.

Slyde · Post by **Slyde** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:51 am

cbock wrote:
slyde wrote:Windows from work and home atm
why do i suddenly feel like i should have said m$ windows in my original thread.

Well, actually I was talking about Microsoft Windows but I can see the sarcasm

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:54 am

Gentoo on my box, FC2 on my brother's box @ home, and Win 2k @ school.

solomonHk · Post by **solomonHk** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:07 am

Of course thats only the guys who click your link. Since I recall a post I did about the same thing months ago, Ide say that Win users are more apt to link check maybe???

jtaylor72 · Post by **jtaylor72** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:35 am

I also think a lot of people that are coming here for help are probably coming from windows because their gentoo is not working properly or something. I know when I first started on this adventure, I mainly visited the site from Windows because I was unable to get into gentoo, or get X running, or whatever.

tumbak · Post by **tumbak** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:44 am

Gentoo at home and work 100% of the time.

HydroSan · Post by **HydroSan** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:21 am

Currently and slowly shifting every single box onto Gentoo at home. Was forced to use Win95OSR1 (

) at my previous school last semester, in which I brang my small P-II over and woo'ed everyone with Gnome's slutty GUI.

Coming into this semester, I will have to start working on Win2K computers. But I don't mind it half as much, as the Sysadmin at this school (I was at it a year ago but had to switch due to family issues) -cares- about the machines. IIRC, he personally uses FreeBSD.

willingtolearn · Post by **willingtolearn** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:55 am

WinXP until I get Gentoo up and running which will quite possilby be a long long time.

oh well i'll get there one day

Given M. Sur · Post by **Given M. Sur** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:49 am

ewan.paton wrote:its quite a knack to have a desktop os that needs to be retarted every day to remain stable

That's one of the funniest typos I've ever seen

A freudian slip maybe?

BTW, Gentoo here. The cash registers where I work use Windows, but I can't access the forums from them.

cbock · Post by **cbock** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:03 pm

update:
since posting this thread yesterday 61% of those who visited my site from here are using linux.

so does anyone have a clue about the stats for gentoo.org?

ewan.paton · Post by **ewan.paton** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:45 pm

00420 wrote:
ewan.paton wrote:its quite a knack to have a desktop os that needs to be retarted every day to remain stable
That's one of the funniest typos I've ever seen A freudian slip maybe?

BTW, Gentoo here. The cash registers where I work use Windows, but I can't access the forums from them.

didnt realise

ive got a photo of a cash machine{1} which uses windows and has crashed, why in gods name do people think it is a good idea to use for embeded apps, i know of some medical equipment that runs on win95 and the manufacture was thinking of networking them

{1} atm fot the yanks

gnuageux · Post by **gnuageux** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:29 am

Yeah, I use opera but I have it set to identify as IE to avoid those warnings, browser detects etc.