Anonymous
9/14/2025, 5:10:51 PM
No.106584286
>>106584139
>Debian/Ubuntu distros are by far the most popular on servers and IoT devices (along with Alpine)
Before anyone claims I'm pulling this out of my ass:
https://hub.docker.com/search?sort=pull_count&order=desc
Multiple of the 1B+ Docker image pulls are just Ubuntu or Debian based and just install a handful of packages on top.
>>106584178
>rightly considered two completely different distributions because they're nothing alike
It doesn't make sense to consolidate them for compatibility reasons, but imo it does for the overall statistics. You could also say that my install of Arch, which I only update every 3-6 months, is completely different than yours assuming you update on a weekly basis. So consolidating me with most Arch users wouldn't make sense either.
And the fact still remains that identical distros are pointlessly split between DEs and (if we don't count Flatpak/Snap installations and SteamOS itself) a third of the Linux users are completely hidden. It's just giving an incomplete picture.
(Also, the original point of discussion was to determine if Ubuntu is or has become irrelevant among desktop users, and Ubuntu LTS and Ubuntu non-LTS are still actually Ubuntu)
>Debian/Ubuntu distros are by far the most popular on servers and IoT devices (along with Alpine)
Before anyone claims I'm pulling this out of my ass:
https://hub.docker.com/search?sort=pull_count&order=desc
Multiple of the 1B+ Docker image pulls are just Ubuntu or Debian based and just install a handful of packages on top.
>>106584178
>rightly considered two completely different distributions because they're nothing alike
It doesn't make sense to consolidate them for compatibility reasons, but imo it does for the overall statistics. You could also say that my install of Arch, which I only update every 3-6 months, is completely different than yours assuming you update on a weekly basis. So consolidating me with most Arch users wouldn't make sense either.
And the fact still remains that identical distros are pointlessly split between DEs and (if we don't count Flatpak/Snap installations and SteamOS itself) a third of the Linux users are completely hidden. It's just giving an incomplete picture.
(Also, the original point of discussion was to determine if Ubuntu is or has become irrelevant among desktop users, and Ubuntu LTS and Ubuntu non-LTS are still actually Ubuntu)