A question about installations

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 11:26, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
> 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

Oh, good stuff. :-)

FWIW: there is not one "Google Linux".

ChromeOS is so called because it's the OS on ChromeBooks and ChromeBoxes.

It is not the one the company uses internally.

That used to be Ubuntu in a form called GooBuntu but now it has been
replaced by Rodete.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/how-google-got-to-rolling-linux-releases-for-desktops

It's short for Rolling Debian Testing.

> 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)

No. Not that they are public about, anyway. ;-)

> I do not remember seeing the question being asked, during
> either the installation process, or, the version upgrade process?

It used to be. Debian still asks about its "popularity contest".
https://popcon.debian.org/

The controversy is over Fedora introducing just this:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/fedora_privacy_telemetry/

People _really_ do not like this, as a rule.

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