What Percentage of A distro is used?

initramfs · 08-23-2014, 01:55 PM

Hi

Is there a way to find out what percentage of a distro is used? Just curious.

The 100 list in distrowatch.com is not really the usage of the distro but just page visits, I guess.

Thanks

jefro · 08-23-2014, 03:15 PM

There is no way to tell.

initramfs · 08-23-2014, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefro

There is no way to tell.

Yeah, I sort of figure that was the case. The stats out there on linux is taken as a whole which usually hovers between 1.5% and slightly higher.

I assumed this is the stats for desktop only because the percentage of linux is very high on mobile and on super computers.

thanks jefro for the reply

ondoho · 08-23-2014, 05:33 PM

actually just today i saw one of our power posters had collected some linux (distro) stats with some selfmade webscraping script (utilizing google).
i didn't comment, so i can't find it anymore...

Habitual · 08-23-2014, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

actually just today i saw one of our power posters

szboardstretcher's post here?
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...2/#post5225401

jefro · 08-23-2014, 09:35 PM

The systems I use won't show up in any web since it has no outside access and I'd assume many plant type installs won't. Also we can't tell how many rogue systems are in homes not reporting at all.

enine · 08-26-2014, 11:12 AM

And the number set to not report out of privacy concerns.
Didn't there used to be a poll here on LQ?