Comment by 404mm
3 years ago
Distrowatch statistics don’t correlate with real world. They say it themselves here https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=popularity
As of now, Gentoo is 53rd - below the already dead centos. And Arch is in the 60’s.
Top ten as of this moment:
1 MX Linux 2773
2 EndeavourOS 2326
3 Mint 2078
4 Manjaro 1547
5 Fedora 1204
6 Pop!_OS 1198
7 Ubuntu 1138
8 Debian 1106
9 Lite 746
10 openSUSE 721
Imo only 4-5 make sense on that list.
Fair. Any alternatives to distrowatch? Google Trends isn't that great either.
I am not aware of one. The user base seems quite fragmented and decentralized so not sure if there is a way to gauge it.
You can probably gather some basic data from packages like popularity contest but the data is going to be quite limited.
Almost all of the top ten are based on either Debian or Arch.