On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 23:23:41 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >Hello, > >I've recently initiated a new statistical project based on anonymously >collected outputs of hwinfo, smartmontools and dmidecode utilities >called "Linux Hardware Trends". The report for Ubuntu is now here: >https://github.com/linuxhw/Trends/tree/master/Dist/Ubuntu > >The report can be considered as an alternative to Ubuntu user >statistics (https://ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics) and helps to answer >questions like "How popular are 32-bit systems?", "How fast is SSD >market share growing?", "Which hard drives are less reliable?", "How >many computers use old CPU microcode?", "How good is device drivers >support?", etc. > >Please let me know if you are interested in tracking any OS/hardware >characteristics that are not currently included in the report. > >The data is collected by the Snap package here: >https://snapcraft.io/hw-probe > >Thanks. >
Pitfalls: How many percent of users do not participate? The HDD we bought 7 years ago might be very reliable and might live another 7 years, even if we park and release the heads a thousand times a day, but actually you can't purchase this disk anymore. IOW you might get a realistic statistics, but it anyway is useless, since the drive is discontinued. /proc/cmdline provides some information about pitfalls such as "mitigations=off audit=off" which might vs a new kernel in combination with a new microcode, by still using kind of a fast past. Btw. my machine internally is equipped with SSDs only, but all of my backup drives are HDDs only and non is connected during regular computer usage. I could continue the line of possible pitfalls, that most likely will bias any statistic and render it absolutely useless. -- “Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.” ― Charles Ives -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
