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Ubuntu Data Collection Report is Out -- First Look at Desktop Metrics

posted by martyb on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the show-me-the-numbers dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mmcmonster on Monday June 25 2018, @10:04AM

    by mmcmonster (401) on Monday June 25 2018, @10:04AM (#698053)

    I would never upgrade an OS. Too many possibilities for failure.

    It's pretty easy to have /home as a separate partition and nuke / and do a clean install.

    I've come over the past few years to keep a simple text file with a list of applications to install once I install the new OS. It started as just a list of apps that aren't installed by default, but has grown to a list of simple commands that I do infrequently enough so that it's easy to keep them for reference rather than Google them. (ie: rip the audio of a YouTube video as an mp3 using youtube-dl)

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