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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

Is this supposed to be a cocky joke? I can't tell. What metric of "most popular" is the author usiing?

Number of active users.

[-] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago

those numbers are nonexistent for most distribution, since forcing telemetry isn't really a cool move in the free software world

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago

The number of IPs hitting their software repos can be a decent way of estimating active users. Also, ISO downloads and so on.

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago

There’s also the check connectivity to Internet ping that network manager does. Arch Linux defaults to Arch’s servers, etc.

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