On Sun, 2024-05-12 at 10:31 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > > On May 12, 2024, at 09:39, Michael D. Setzer II via users > > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > https://truelist.co/blog/linux-statistics/ > > Has some info. #18 topic has Ubuntu listed at just under 34%. > > Debian at 16%, CentOS at 9.3%, RedHat at 0.8%, Gentoo at 0.5%, > > and then Fedora at 0.2%. But no real clue on how they came up > > with those numbers, or what kind of users those are. > > Those numbers are based on public web servers running those distros, > and there are a lot of caveats to even that breakdown, see the > methodology of the research: > > https://w3techs.com/technologies > > While Fedora can and is used for web services (and is much more > common in the cattle-not-pets style of container web services), a lot > of the more traditional server practices requires a stable, > unchanging web service platform which you see in RHEL and other LTS > distros. > > It’s unlikely you’ll ever get good stats on desktop distro usage > breakdown, if you consider how angry the community got when Fedora > simply *proposed* tracking. The only thing I can think of: Ubuntu can > track their snap store because it’s their own proprietary product and > so there aren’t mirrors or alternate stores to obfuscate results, so > I imagine they’ll always have ways to track users and post numbers.
I guess Fedora repo accesses would be one way, though it wouldn't account for varying IP addresses or VPNs. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
