20-million new Ubuntu Linux PCs in 2012?

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"e wasn?t talking about 20-million new copies of Ubuntu being installed. That?s easy to believe. True, desktop Linux has only a fraction of the total desktop market, but there are certainly tens of millions of Linux users. Mind you, there are hundreds of millions of Mac OS X users and over a billion Windows users.

"Still, 20-million people buying Ubuntu pre-installed on their computers in the next twelve months? That?s a lot! Indeed, in Canonical?s own recent user survey, a mere 0.1% of Ubuntu users bought their Linux PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed from such vendors as Dell, System76, and ZaReason."

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