'Last summer GNOME invited people to voluntarily run the tool gnome-info-collect on their systems to send back (non-sensitive/non-identifiable) data about their system configurations. 2,560 people ran the tool, and they're now releasing the data. Here's the distribution of distros for all 2,560 respondents: Fedora: 1,376 (54.69%) Arch: 469 (18.64%) Ubuntu: 267 (10.61%) Manjaro: 140 (5.56%) EndeavourOS: 66 (2.62%) Debian: 44 (1.75%) openSUSE: 38 (1.51%) Pop! 38 (1.51%) Other: 78 (3.10%) And the breakdown of hardware manufacturers (top four): Lenovo: 516 (23.54%) Dell: 329 (15.01%) ASUS: 261 (11.91%) HP: 223 (10.17%) The site OMG! Linux pointed out that 90% of systems had Flatpak installed — (though it's enabled by default on Fedora, which was 54.69% of all the respondents). Some other interesting stats they noticed: - Most common default browser: Firefox (73.14%), Chrome (11.64%), Brave (4.76%). [Microsoft Edge was the default browser on 37 systems (1.51%) ] - 83% of users have at least one (non-default) GNOME extension installed - 'App Indicator' is the most popular extension (by 43% of those using extensions) - GSConnect, User Themes, and Dash to Panel/Dock also widely used - Most popular desktop apps: GIMP (58.48%), VLC (53.71%), Steam (53.40%) [...] The popularity of GNOME extensions will surprise no-one. It is a solid indicator that the existing GNOME extension system is good at doing what it's there to: let users augment and extend their system in the ways they want. GNOME's report adds that "it's exciting to see the popularity of new GNOME apps like Flatseal, To Do, Bottles, and Fragments." One other interesting stat from their report: 55% of the participants were using Online Accounts, with Google the most common one added, followed by Nextcloud and Microsoft. But "Some of the account types had very little usage at all, with Foursquare, Facebook, Media Server, Flickr and Last.fm all being active on less than 1% of systems."' -- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/01/23/0355247 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ Mobile +64 22 190 2375 https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/