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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, @07:18AM (1 child)
The data supports the opposite conclusion: most people buy a new computer, install Ubuntu, and then keep running that version of Ubuntu on that computer until the hardware breaks.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 25 2018, @07:13PM
Nope. Data does not support that. There wouldn't be so many nuke and reinstalls.
People buy a computer. Run windows. Try dual-booting Linux, soon learn that rebooting back and forth is too much trouble.
Next windows update horks over their linux install, so they forget about it.
They hear about a new release of linux and they install that one, again dual-booting. Maybe they install yet another distro beside the other one (triple booting).
They don't spend any significant time in any of them, they just reinstall a few times, till their mom needs the machine to do taxes or something.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.