According to DistroWatch, MX Linux received most of the hits and seems to be the most popular Linux distribution at the moment.

When I saw this, I was pretty surprised. What do you think?

  • k_o_t
    6·
    5 years ago

    Isn’t this data solely gathered from the people that visit their website?

    According to the steam hardware survey, the most popular distros are Ubuntu and Arch, which seems a lot more probable…

    • DessalinesA
      4·
      5 years ago

      Yup this is probably closer to the truth. Distrowatch literally just counts page hits.

      • bnaw
        2·
        5 years ago

        Still somewhat surprising that MX Linux got the most page hits.

      • AgreeableLandscapeM
        2·
        5 years ago

        Is MX Linux used for embedded/server applications? If it is, I wonder how many of those recorded instances are VPNs.

    • AgreeableLandscapeM
      3·
      5 years ago

      According to the steam hardware survey, the most popular distros are Ubuntu and Arch

      I expected as much, though that only accounts for desktop users. If you factor in server distros, it’ll probably be Ubuntu and CentOS.

  • muesli
    3·
    5 years ago

    You could also say MX Linux is the distribution that seems to game distrowatch. Just compare the size of the respective distro subreddits and you’ll see there’s something fishy with these stats.

  • nyex
    3·
    5 years ago

    my husband is a computer technician and he always installs either ubuntu (for newer hardware) or mx linux on people’s computer when they need something other than the previous pirate copy of windows.

    (also husband uses mx himself.)

    i don’t like mx linux because i like tweaking with everything and mx makes it a bit too complicated to do so. but then it’s a pretty good option for people that don’t want to think about their OS much and just want to use the browser and the text editor, which is actually what most normal people do >.< and it’s lightweight enough to run on most computers, so that’s a plus for an ‘underdeveloped’ country, as /u/ajz said, such as mine.

    so maybe there’s something in that: mx linux might be popular among non-tech people in non-tech places?