Best desktop OS poll at TechReport.

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#1

Follow the link below if you wish to cast your vote. Linux is currently at 9%.

Poll: How will Windows 7 compare? - The Tech Report

#2

Vote for Linux, ya maggets :stuck_out_tongue:

#3

It keeps alternating between 18% and 19% for Linux. Almost 20%! Go Linux!

**Note: **I posted the link to the poll on several other Linux online communities. I bet the TechReport administrators are wondering about the sudden influx of visitors with Linux in their browser user agent strings. A bit of Linux activism in work. :wink:

#4

Neckbeards and trolls living under bridges and using Linux will thank you for that :stuck_out_tongue:

#5

<sigh> apparently their site only allows one vote per IP </sigh> :wink:

good thing i have a dynamic, huh?

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heartless_bot

#6

heartless_bot wrote:
> <sigh> apparently their site only allows one vote per IP </sigh> :wink:
>
> good thing i have a dynamic, huh?
>

Linux can win this poll without cheating IMHO.

#7

On 5/7/2009 4:30 AM, heartless_bot wrote:
> <sigh> apparently their site only allows one vote per IP</sigh> :wink:
>
> good thing i have a dynamic, huh?
>
And there is the reason why polls/statistics really don’t matter one way
or another. Either they can be cheated/faked or the statistics can be
read to support whatever position you want it too.

#8

Linux is just a few votes behind beating XP, Vista and Mac OS combined!rotfl!

#9

> Linux can win this poll without cheating IMHO.

and you actually think that no one on Redmond’s payroll is watching
and will MAKE SURE that that does not happen?

and, of course we all know that none of Bill’s boys would do anything
like “cheating” to influence the outcome, right??

they wouldn’t do anything illegal in the eyes of any U.S. Attorney
or EU courts, right???

wrong!

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heartless_bot

#10

I’m with you on that one!!

Lies, **** lies, and statistics :sarcastic:

#11

I have just voted too! (Actually 21%):wink:

#12

Very small sampling as of now, about 1800 for w7, 700 for linux. That’s much less than the number of MS employees…

Also most windows users never use anything else, so how could they not vote for w7?

And hope springs eternal. w7 HAS to be better than vista. After all, how could it conceivably be worse? :slight_smile:

#13

Anyone notice that BeOS+Other/No-pref > Vista? Good stuff! lol!

#14

  • Windows XP (777 votes)
    14%

    • Windows Vista (203 votes)
      4%

    • Windows 7 (2757 votes)
      51%

    • Mac OS X (405 votes)
      7%

    • Linux (1059 votes)
      20%

    • BeOS (78 votes)
      1%

    • Other/no preference (129 votes)
      2%

Total votes: 5408. Your vote was registered for: Linux.

Everyone has a free will. :slight_smile:

#15

Voted Linux as well. Good to see it has more votes than XP and ME 2.0 (also called “Vista”) together :smiley:

#16

One of the comments about the poll cracked me up.

‘Alright, who called all six Linux geeks and had them vote 179 times using different IP addresses? Come on, we’re on to you…own up’
rotfl!