Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

[Grady Martin]

On 2016年02月19日 18時48分, Felix von Zadow wrote:

Im not aware of a representative survey. But if you're not after
reliable numbers, try combining statistics on the total number of
linux users world wide [1] with the percentage of Arch users [2].

Tadaa, 2,4M Arch users.


Our numbers are that strong?  Let's take over Greenland.

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

[Felix von Zadow]

> I want to have a number how much people are using Arch Linux 
> worldwide. I don't need an exact number.

Im not aware of a representative survey. But if you're not after
reliable numbers, try combining statistics on the total number of
linux users world wide [1] with the percentage of Arch users [2].

Tadaa, 2,4M Arch users.

If that's not enough for you, just switch sources and use [3] instead of
[2] to get 24M Arch users.


Distrowatch [4] might actually be a more useful resource.

Felix



[1] https://www.linuxcounter.net/statistics

[2] https://www.linuxcounter.net/statistics/distributions

[3]
https://brashear.me/blog/2015/08/24/results-of-the-2015-slash-r-slash-linux-distribution-survey/

[4] http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

[Temlin Olivér]

A good statistic would be from the  downloads on the
filesystem/coreutils/pacman packages, but you would need to get all
the mirrors to track that. Also, that still measures the number of
machines and not the users.

--
Oliver Temlin

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

[sekret]

* Christian Rebischke  [18.02.2016 21:03]:

Hello everyone,
Is there any counter for ISO-downloads or something? I want to have a number
how much people are using Arch Linux worldwide. I don't need an exact
number.

Does somebody has some statistics?

best regards

Chris


Ask the NSA, they are probably the only ones who (can) know ;-)

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

[Ben Oliver]

I can only agree with all the above. The nature of Arch, and free software
in general, makes it very hard to track the number of users.

Commercially, 'number of users' can be a measure of success so people go to
great lengths to keep tabs on how many users they have (or they have an
even simpler metric - number of purchases). Not so here, since no one is
having to 'sell the numbers' so to speak.

Also, bear in mind that single users could be running lots of instances. I
run four machines with Arch on them, all with different IPs.

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

[Sebastiaan Lokhorst]

2016-02-18 21:42 GMT+01:00 Tim Ohliger :

> I do not know about a download counter, but maybe distrowatch.com is what
> you are looking for.
>

DistroWatch itself says:
>The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics (...) correlate neither to
usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of
distributions.

So that's not a good measure.

The only statistics I know about are at [1], but those are opt-in. So
probably not a good measure either.

Regards,
Sebastiaan

[1] https://www.archlinux.de/?page=Statistics

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

[Tim Ohliger]

Hi.

I do not know about a download counter, but maybe distrowatch.com is what
you are looking for.

Kind regards
Tim

2016-02-18 21:02 GMT+01:00 Christian Rebischke <
chris.rebisc...@archlinux.org>:

> Hello everyone,
> Is there any counter for ISO-downloads or something? I want to have a
> number
> how much people are using Arch Linux worldwide. I don't need an exact
> number.
>
> Does somebody has some statistics?
>
> best regards
>
> Chris
>