How many Fedora Silverblue users worldwide?

[angel96 (Angel Eckert)]

Hi

How many Fedora Silverblue users worldwide?

With a web search I found no stats

[ilikelinux]

@angel96

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.

[pg-tips (P G)]

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.

[hricky (Hristo Marinov)]

Currently the chart looks like this:

[angel96 (Angel Eckert)]

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

[pg-tips (P G)]

@hricky

Currently the chart looks like this:

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)

[hricky (Hristo Marinov)]

Yes, Timothée Ravier noticed a problem with the countme metrics.

@angel96

Please also do the same graph for classic Fedora.

See:

Fedora usage stats

@jspaleta @siosm @mattdm @gwmngilfen if useful, i just merged a growth_upstream.svg generator into GitHub - ublue-os/countme: countme so if you clone and run that locally as in the readme, you can generate the chart below in a few seconds. You can also generate it for the past 5 years if you update the months in the script (also below). I also fixed a KDE Plasma edition mis-count - it’s way higher I think. KDE Plasma and CoreOS seem to be growing a lot! [image] [image]

[angel96 (Angel Eckert)]

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)?

[hricky (Hristo Marinov)]

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.

[nikodunk (niko)]

@angel96

Thank you. But even 200k is rather little. Debian has massively more users (all Raspberry alone are much more).

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.

@angel96

I remember that Fedora used to be much more popular.

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.