The purpose of the polls is to find out the “balance of power”
on home computers and laptops. In all surveys, you can choose several options.
The first survey about operating systems is not the main goal, he added it in order not to offend those who do not use Linux. It will not show the real ratio, because this post is located only in the hubs "Linux" and "Operating Systems".
Previous polls about distributions:
Which free OS distributions do you use? - January 13, 2010
What Linux distributions do you use on desktops? - November 27, 2011
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Previous surveys about working environments and shells:
Your home “work environment”? - June 15, 2007
What desktop do you mostly use? - July 17, 2009
What working environment do you usually use? - January 11, 2012
Your main desktop environment in linux - May 22, 2012
For accuracy, the
elementary OS distribution and
Mutter / Muffin window managers were added when there were about 200 votes in all, the
dwm ,
i3 and
StumpWM window managers - about 300 votes,
Metacity / Marco and
OLWM window managers - about 450 votes, the working environment
Trinity - 1150 votes.
This will help assess how many votes these options have lost, because they were not from the very beginning.
Some analytics about distros
Compared with the previous survey of two and a half years ago:
Growing up:
Beginner
elementary OS is already 6-7 in popularity, overtaking such old people as openSUSE and CentOS.
Mint + 60%
Arch + 30%
With their / difficult to say:
Debian ,
Gentoo ,
Fedora ,
CentOS .
Are falling:
Ubuntu -15%, but still dominates, overtaking Debian 3 times, and Mint even more. I still can not understand where the fable came from about the fact that Mint is the most popular distribution kit.
Mandriva ,
openSUSE ,
Slackware .