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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, @07:34AM (2 children)
> Which killer apps besides games (though game discussions would be welcome from the perspective of a WINE/VM standpoint) are keeping you running windows?
In descending order of importance, Total Commander, IrfanView, Winamp.
I tried a bunch of FOSS alternatives for these three, and all of them sucked. Most of the functionality is there, sure, but man they're clunky :/ I dread the day when I'll have to move away from my Win7, as Win10 is just... no. I'm fervently hoping that at least Total Commander will eventually get a Linux port, as running a file manager through Wine is, uh, not ideal.
Some other applications that are not critical but are much nicer than their Linuxy counterparts: DisplayFusion, TortoiseSVN/TortoiseGit, Notepad++, Process Explorer, wgnuplot (... why?), WinSCP, uTorrent 2.2.1 (what do you mean it's from 2011?), Everything (clarification: that's the name of the application, I don't mean "all software")...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @08:39PM
File manager? ls, mv, rm, find and/or xargs - that's all you need to know., The man pages have everything, just make sure to use the docs that shipped with your distro or you might run into some strangeness due to differing implementations. Learn a shell, any shell (except csh). You'll never think GUI shit is elegant or powerful or has killer features again. Music software is hard to recommend as it seems there's no clear best for everyone and it's down to personal preferences regarding features, display, and styling. I think winamp runs in wine though IIRC (wasn't there an article with a lot of discussion about this a month or two ago?). As for wgnuplot, maybe it's using Qt on windows and your distro ships a gtk version? If it's not too big you might just want to try building it yourself with some different configuration settings. For everything else, either never heard of or I just can't understand why you would ever think that was better. Task management, version control, backups, and ssh should be done with aliases and functions and cron jobs/modern init. My transmission-daemon is sitting on a huge pile of scripts that I've fine-tuned to the point that I only use a client when I run into more windows jackasses putting all kinds of unmentionable shit into filenames and breaking my automation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @08:43PM
Containerized VMs would probably work for most of the stuff if newer versions don't break compatability too badly. You could even do file management with some sshfs hackery and proper attention to security.