On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 01:38:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
The main statistic I would like to see is: what percentage of Fedora
users
are opting for KDE over Gnome?
From our best analysis of Fedora 22 downloads, it's about:
68% Fedora Workstation (which is of course GNOME based)
14% Fedora Server (no GUI)
5% KDE Spin
4% Fedora Cloud (no GUI)
2.5% XFCE Spin
2.5% LXDE Spin
2% Mate Spin
1% Sugar
<1% Everything else
The KDE percentage was roughly the same in Fedora 20, before the "3
Editions" marketing focus. It was higher — about 7% — for F19, but the
difference doesn't seem to have come from the GNOME-based desktop,
which hovers around that 70% mark. Also note that from mirror
connection statistics, F20 and newer seem to be much bigger successes
than anything since Fedora 14, so that 5% is a chunk of a larger pie.
Of course, these numbers are based on downloads and mirror connections.
They don't really tell what people are actually _using_ once they've
done the downloads.
Fedora seems to me to be making it harder and harder to choose KDE
(and other alternatives to Gnome).
I don't think that's true. The Fedora design and websites team recently
put a lot of effort into redoing
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/,
which puts KDE right at the top. A specific goal was to separate out
the high-quality desktop spins from the more esoteric "software bundle"
spins like Robotics or Fedora Jam — great in their own right, but kind
of unfair to the desktops to have them all mixed in the list. (You can
now find those at
http://labs.fedoraproject.org/).
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader