Comments on: 10 Top Most Popular Linux Distributions of 2023

By: Rick Evans

Rick Evans — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:10:50 +0000

In reply to Richard Steven Hack. Yes, I was surprised that SuSE and RedHat were not on the list. But, who knows how they come up with their lists?.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 10:22:20 +0000

In reply to NoWay.

From DistroWatch themselves @ https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.

By: NoWay

NoWay — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:24:50 +0000

Here they are off the Distrowatch list for thae past 6 months:

1 MX Linux 2760<
2 EndeavourOS 2313<
3 Mint 2078
5 Pop!_OS 1196=
6 Fedora 1186<
7 Ubuntu 1135
9 Lite 740<
10 openSUSE 724

Kinda different from article list..

By: Hartmut Balke

Hartmut Balke — Fri, 19 May 2023 18:05:27 +0000

What about OpenSuse? Or even Tumbleweed?

By: Richard Steven Hack

Richard Steven Hack — Fri, 19 May 2023 04:11:46 +0000

“Although it is not a good indicator of a distribution’s popularity or usage, DistroWatch remains the most accepted measure of popularity within the Linux community. ”

Well, that explains it.

I highly suspect that some of those listed are not as popular as openSUSE or some of the other well-known distros.