A question about installations

[Bret Busby]

Hello.

Having just read an article by Liam Proven, about the numbers or 
proportions of operating systems installations, including googlelinux 
(commonly named chromedOS, I think), published at The Register, it 
occurred to me that, I remember having seen, some years ago, in the 
installation process (of some distributions and versions) of Linux, a 
question, as part of the installation process, something like "Do you 
agree to have this installation counted as an installation of the 
distribution (and, I think, version number of the distribution), for 
statistical reporting?".

I do not remember having seen the question asked, as part of the 
installation process, for some years, now (I have no idea, of when I 
last saw the question being asked, as part of the installation / 
distribution number upgrade), for a Linux distribution - I have been 
installing UbuntuMate Linux, for about ten years, now, and, Linux Mint 
Mate, since about version 21, I think.

So, the question is, do Ubuntu and Linux Mint (and, any other Ubuntu 
derivatives) keep statistics of the number of installations,of each of 
their variants (eg, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, etc, and, Linux 
Mint, Linux Mint Mate, Linux Mint Cinnamon, Linux Mint XFCE, etc), and, 
the version numbers of each, and, if so, is it done as an automated 
process (during system installation and version number upgrade), as, as 
I have said, I do not remember seeing the question being asked, during 
either the installation process, or, the version upgrade process?


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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