"Desktop distributions that are strongly favored by users with servers"

[Matthew Miller]

I dunno exactly where to post this, so I figured here is as good as
anywhere.

The sub-reddit r/Linux runs an annual survey, and the posting
of the 2015 survey made me notice the previous results. One of the
particular focuses of this survey is on determining if users of server
Linux have different preferences than those who don't, and it's
interesting to see where Fedora falls there.

The overall survey:

https://brashear.me/blog/2014/05/18/results-of-the-2014-slash-r-slash-lin...

And the part I found interesting:

 Desktop distributions that are strongly favored by users with servers

    Gentoo (81%)
    Fedora (68%)
    Debian (67%)
    Arch Linux (64%)

I say interesting rather than "surprising" because I have the
non-numerical sense that a lot of Fedora users are sysadmins (and often
sysadmins running RHEL and CentOS), and these numbers seem to support
that.

Also note that GNOME 3.x has a strong plurality as favorite Linux
desktop. (The second favorite being "other", followed by KDE 4.x, XFCe,
and Unity.)

And, continuing on to cloud — of people running servers, it's not
surprising to see desktop systems almost as high as rack servers
(because the answerers are primarily hobbyists), but cloud isn't far
behind.



It'll be interesting to see how the 2015 results compare. (Um, please
resist the urge to stack the survey....)

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 1 May 2015 at 10:43, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  I dunno exactly where to post this, so I figured here is as good as
>  anywhere.
>
>  The sub-reddit r/Linux runs an annual survey, and the posting
>  of the 2015 survey made me notice the previous results. One of the
>  particular focuses of this survey is on determining if users of server
>  Linux have different preferences than those who don't, and it's
>  interesting to see where Fedora falls there.
>
>  The overall survey:
>
>
>
> https://brashear.me/blog/2014/05/18/results-of-the-2014-slash-r-slash-lin...
>
>  And the part I found interesting:
>
>   Desktop distributions that are strongly favored by users with servers
>
>      Gentoo (81%)
>
>  
....


>  It'll be interesting to see how the 2015 results compare. (Um,
> please
>  resist the urge to stack the survey....)
>
>  
I would say that from that one line it is already stacked. The number of
Gentoo users has been falling for years and seeing it above the one most of
the users went to (Arch) says that there was already a push to make sure
someone's distro is on top no matter what.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.

[Chaoyi Zha]

Interesting!

On Fri, May 1, 2015, 12:47 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 1 May 2015 at 10:43, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>
> > I dunno exactly where to post this, so I figured here is as good as
> > anywhere.
> >
> > The sub-reddit r/Linux runs an annual survey, and the posting
> > of the 2015 survey made me notice the previous results. One of the
> > particular focuses of this survey is on determining if users of server
> > Linux have different preferences than those who don't, and it's
> > interesting to see where Fedora falls there.
> >
> > The overall survey:
> >
> >
> >
> https://brashear.me/blog/2014/05/18/results-of-the-2014-slash-r-slash-lin...
> >
> > And the part I found interesting:
> >
> >  Desktop distributions that are strongly favored by users with servers
> >
> >     Gentoo (81%)
> >
> >
>  ....
>
>
> > It'll be interesting to see how the 2015 results compare. (Um, please
> > resist the urge to stack the survey....)
> >
> >
>  I would say that from that one line it is already stacked. The number of
>  Gentoo users has been falling for years and seeing it above the one most of
>  the users went to (Arch) says that there was already a push to make sure
>  someone's distro is on top no matter what.
>
>
>  --
>  Stephen J Smoogen.
>
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[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 10:46:58AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  >  Desktop distributions that are strongly favored by users with
> servers
>  >     Gentoo (81%)
>  > It'll be interesting to see how the 2015 results compare. (Um, please
>  > resist the urge to stack the survey....)
>  I would say that from that one line it is already stacked. The number of
>  Gentoo users has been falling for years and seeing it above the one most of
>  the users went to (Arch) says that there was already a push to make sure
>  someone's distro is on top no matter what. 
Ah, sorry, those numbers are misleading out of context. The number is
percentage of users _of that distro on non-server systems_ who also run
(any distro of) Linux on server systems. It is not overall share (where
Arch and Ubuntu still lead, at 23% and 20% respectively (compared to
Fedora's 7% and Gentoo's 2%).


-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader