- cannot be adequately established for Linux because so few computers
are actually sold with Linux on them.
Why is that? In which way would making back-up easier -- and this is only one problem -- make Linux less popular?
Most users want *everything* in their $HOME backed up, config files and data (although the distinction you make between these is vague). This can be trivially does by just backing up everything in $HOME. I notice you didn't both replying to this part of Craig's email.... Wonder why ...
The one thing you can somewhat measure is web browser usage where the statistics aren't as clear cut as you want to believe. See...
w3schools.com... Yes, this generally gives you an overall picture.
Once again, thanks for your contribution!
Its a hard set of real life numbers. Yeah, it just one group of users but a *lot* better stats than the 1% you quote with nothing what so ever to back it up ...