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What's up with distrowatch and MX Linux?
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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Distrowatch popularity is a pointless metric. IIRC they measure clicks on their own site as popularity. That means that people that just want to check out that distro near the top that they never heard of actually ensure that it stays near the top.
This is true. I'm pretty sure they acknowledge this transparently.
It's helpful to hilight the common distro's but it's not an endorsement.
True as well