Hi
How many Fedora Silverblue users worldwide?
With a web search I found no stats
Hi
How many Fedora Silverblue users worldwide?
With a web search I found no stats
This would really suprise me if you would find something. We do not have Datacollegtion implemented in Fedora.
There’s “countme”, and that is in Silverblue too, see: Opt-out countme is anything but easy - #9 by hricky
From that thread there’s a link to some CSV-format data, though it sounds like there isn’t a readymade graphical version anywhere.
thanks @hricky please also do the same graph for classic Fedora.
thanks @pg-tips Index of /csv-reports/countme
I can’t download the raw data
I am very surprised we are only 6800 users… That is very less
Ah, thanks. I think I’d seen that on the Universal Blue forum before, but with higher Silverblue numbers.
It looks like the current figure (and the figures now quoted for previous dates) are about half of what was being reported before 12 May.
(Edit - looks like the previous numbers were being overcounted: Over (double) counting · Issue #37 · ublue-os/countme · GitHub)
Yes, Timothée Ravier noticed a problem with the countme metrics.
See:
Thank you. But even 200k is rather little. Debian has massively more users (all Raspberry alone are much more).
I remember that Fedora used to be much more popular. Does this have something to do with the new owner IBM (e.g. CentOS) (the much smaller user base than before)?
I can’t judge whether the current numbers are small or large, and I also don’t know the numbers from the past.
As for the Raspberry Pi, this may be due to the fact that the Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian Linux, although I don’t know how these installations are counted.
Careful - make sure you’re comparing apples to apples. These numbers are weekly active users. So actual desktop installs that are being used, which is what counts for convincing software developers to support you. A lot of Linux reports downloads, and/or include server installs.
Current data says it never was, unfortunately. I’d also take a bet that a lot of Linux distributions we think of as “popular” do not actually have as many desktop users as we think they do. See this post from the same thread for an educated guess at cross-distro analytics.
What this data basically shows us is how small unfortunately the desktop Linux world is, which begs the question how to grow
Here’s a fresh graph with today’s data, if you’re curious.