Stack OverFlow Developer survey
[I posted this to the desktop list, as it seems most relevant to Fedora
Workstation, but it occurs to me that it's also quite interesting from
an overall strategic perspective.]
<http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015>
There's a lot which is of interest here, but this jumped out at me:
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech-os
Breakdown by OS:
* 58.3% Windows 7 & 8
* 21.5% OS X
* 20.5% Linux
Which is awesome and encouraging for desktop Linux. However, the
breakdown of distros (from 4667 responses) is:
* 12.0% Ubuntu
* 2.2% Debian
* 1.6% Mint
* 1.3% Fedora
* 4.0% Other
So... we've got some Room for Growth there. :)
Unfortuantely, Stack Exchange didn't ask distro version in previous
years, but this'll at least give us a number from here. (For OSes as a
whole, the shift seems to be entirely from Windows XP and 7 to Windows
8 — desktop Linux is basically flat and OS X gains a few percent over
the past two years.)
I wish they asked about deployment / target OS, too.
You can see some of the demographics further down the study — about a
third (32%) are full-stack web devs, 14% are students, 10% do back-end
web devs, 9% mobile, 8% desktop, 6% front-end web, and then enterprise
developers of various stripes at 2.9%.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader