Hannah Montana Linux is probably the most popular Linux distro.
In all seriousness, popularity isn’t necessarily the best metric for what you should run on your computer. Ubuntu might be fairly popular, but it also isn’t particularly good.
MX Linux
Source: https://gitnux.org/most-popular-linux-distributions/
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Disteowatch is an unreliable source since it’s basically just a giant tracker for its own sites.
Distrowatch only tracks the number of hits that distros website gets. Which is a really stupid way of ranking popularity. The most common distro would be Ubuntu (by far).
Amongst Steam users, the most popular desktop distros are:
- Arch Linux 64 bit 7.66% -0.49%
- Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS 64 bit 5.54% +5.54%
- Linux Mint 21.3 64 bit 3.77% +0.21%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 3.42% +0.07%
- Other 29.41% -1.37%
According to a recent survey.
I think a lot of people just got trolled in this thread.
snufkin linux
Chrome OS.
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I guess GNU/Linux, musl+busybox/Linux in not really popular
I don’t think that either of them count as ‘Linux distributions’. And sadly, it matters. Even the bugs are not consistent across distros.
Thst depends in a lot of things.
What do you mean with “PC”? Is a smartphone a PC? Is a steamdeck a PC? The Laptop of a government employee? A Raspberry Pi? What about a TV-box or an e-reader?
Because if you mean in general on non-server hardware it’s probably some weird Chinese/indian fork for their government PCs.
Otherwise it could be Arch due to the steam decks, but then again it depends on how tightly you define “distribution”. As others have mentioned, is Xubuntu their own distribution or does it count as Ubuntu? What is Mint/Pop!_OS?
But no matter what, it’s not MX Linux.
A smartphone is not a PC I’d wager. People can treat them like ones but then we’d have to be annoying and broaden it beyond what anyone could possibly mean.
Most people mean a non-apple laptop or desktop when they say a PC. It’s widely enough accepted that it shouldn’t be too ambiguous when used.
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I would say we’re beyond the era of PC referencing the classic “x86 IBM Personal Computer compatible” definition. PC could reasonably be considered to include many ARM systems, considering there are now Windows laptops shipping with ARM processors that can run “PC” software. Besides, most new x86 PCs aren’t IBM PC compatible anyways as legacy BIOS support has been dropped by a lot of UEFI implementations. I would consider any device that runs a desktop style OS (be it Windows, Linux, or even MacOS) a PC. The distinction in my mind is specifically mobile vs. desktop. Android and iOS are not PC. They’re primarily touch driven and apps are restricted to a certain format with a centralized app store where you are expected to get all of your apps. Windows/Linux/MacOS are primarily keyboard and mouse driven and you have a lot more flexibility on acquiring new apps, with their forms of “sideloading” and “rooting/jailbreaking” being things that are just normal and accepted rather than workarounds/hacks to break out of the walled garden. I would also go as far as saying a smartphone can be a PC if you have a PC like OS on it, such as mobile Linux OSes that let you run desktop applications.
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If we are talking about desktop PCs, maybe Ubuntu, but based these reports it’s Arch.
That’s because SteamOS, the operating system preinstalled on the Steam Deck, is based on Arch.
I don’t understand why they haven’t offered a way to filter out the Deck from those results. It skews every category (CPU, GPU etc.)
Not really…That’s not a linux user metric it’s a steam user metric. Seems fine to include the steam hardware platform
With Steam having a gaming audience I’d argue that this has at least a slight bias towards Arch, as the latest kernel versions and other software are often advantageous for gaming in particular.
But even with the Steam numbers note that Arch is just listed as one single variant, while Ubuntu has separate entries for different versions. Ubuntu LTS 22.04 alone is so close to Arch that it’s probably ahead once you include all versions.
Worth keeping in mind that the steam deck uses a distro based on arch, so it might be inflating the arch numbers in that steam survey.
I don’t think it is. Mint is based on Ubuntu but still shows up as mint. Arch is very popular
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Nah in that category it was separating steamOS. Here is the stats for operating system for Linux.
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Yeah you can filter stats by OS then click on the linux os section to get more details then you’ll see what I screenshot. I had to dig to find it.
Ubuntu 100%, if you count how many distros are ubuntu based (and collaterally debian based), but I believe it is the most used one even if you only count official ubuntu releases
Maybe arch would be quite high, if you count the steamdeck as desktop (maybe), and the big increase on arch users in the past couple of years (wen’t from being rare to 1 in 3 users saying “I use arch btw”)
In professional work space, ubuntu will probably be highest. Second place I would guess Fedora
As personal workstation I would guess arch (even without steam deck) followed by mint or some flavour of Ubuntu
I don’t think Arch is more used than Ubuntu, unless maybe if you count all the Ubuntu flavors separately
PC deez nuts
Ubuntu for sure, about every companies I worked at were using Ubuntu as main dev. And now in the new company I work for, it’s WSL2 in Windows, using Ubuntu too.
Only non-Ubuntu I used in companies was CentOS.
So pretty sure Ubuntu is the most popular/used.
It’s the only version I’ve come across as a pre-installed option for bought systems, particularly from Dell. A big thing going for it is if you search ‘how to do X in Linux’ you can pretty safely bet some or even most top hits are Ubuntu related.
Probably depends how you define things. Like, is Xubuntu Xubuntu or Ubuntu with Xfce included by default? How much change is necessary before it’s not “debian with added bits”?
Probably based on how the OS defined itself. Steam is able to gather information like this easily.
