The Ubuntu blog has a report on installation metrics:
We first announced our intention to ask users to provide basic, not-personally-identifiable system data back in February. Since then we have built the Ubuntu Report tool and integrated it in to the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS initial setup tool. You can see an example of the data being collected on the Ubuntu Report Github page.
At first login users are asked if they would like to send the information gathered and can preview that data if they wish.
One thing to point out is that this data is entirely from Ubuntu Desktop installs only and does not include users of Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, our cloud images, or any of the Ubuntu derivatives that do not include the ubuntu-report software in their installer.
For example, the average install took 18 minutes, but some systems were able to install in less than 8 minutes. Available RAM was most frequently reported at 4GB followed closely by 8GB, but there were systems reporting in with as little as 1GB and as much as 128GB.
How do your system(s) compare?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @12:56AM (3 children)
If VM installs are included, then there'd be a lot of skew with people setting up VMs from scratch.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 25 2018, @01:27AM (2 children)
Most of those installs into VMs can safely be assumed to be tourists.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @10:27AM (1 child)
Cross platform development / QA and per distro packaging seems more likely than tourism TBH.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 25 2018, @07:06PM
Those tasks amount to less than 1% of the Linux userbase, which in itself is something like 2% of PC ussers.
So yeah, there is some of that, I run VMs for testing my self. (Mostly windows VMs on Linux Hosts).
But I've also got many VMs with different distros installed for doing my fair share of Distro Tourism.
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