Ubuntu slips to fourth place

[MyWorld]

Ubuntu slipped even further this month after other distros had some mayor releases late last month and this month, it is now fourth overall for this month:
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

This does not say much, except that there is a sharp drop in interest in Ubuntu in general. If you view this graph http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ubuntu-mint.0022.jpg you can clearly see a downward trend for Ubuntu.

Also note the sharp interest in Mint in 2011, that will soon level out now that Gnome 3 has come to Mint I expect.

What is interesting is that Fedora and Debian seems to be the most stable distros with a bunch of dedicated followers.

Read more here:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/11/23...popularity-fast-new-unity-interface-to-blame/

 

[backstreetboy]

Mint FTW

 

[ponder]

Keep on with Unity...

 

[fbulovic]

I was Ubuntu user since 7.10 and Unity/Gnome 3 was primary reason to start using linuxmint

 

[Ockie]

I was Ubuntu user since 7.10 and Unity/Gnome 3 was primary reason to start using linuxmint

Have you tried Mint 12 yet? I really like how they implemented Gnome Shell. I love it. Looks really polished also. I HATED unity.

 

[blaaislaai]

Mint FTW

+1

The only distribution I really enjoy at the moment

 

[hawker]

Using distrowatch to judge the number of users = massive massive fail.

 

[blaaislaai]

Using distrowatch to judge the number of users = massive massive fail.

True, but then again, in my workplace, the network admins all user Mint

 

[MyWorld]

Using distrowatch to judge the number of users = massive massive fail.

That is not even close to what the article was about.

 

[hawker]

That is not even close to what the article was about.

They got pretty all their information from distrowatch.

I wouldn't trust it.

It measures page views to each distributions’s information page. For example, when you visit distrowatch.com/arch, that adds a little bit to Arch’s relative popularity on Distrowatch.

 

[fbulovic]

Have you tried Mint 12 yet? I really like how they implemented Gnome Shell. I love it. Looks really polished also. I HATED unity.

Not yet, using mint 11 64 bit and waiting end of the month - few GB left ;-)

 

[Ockie]

Not yet, using mint 11 64 bit and waiting end of the month - few GB left ;-)

It is well worth it. I even made a donation of $5.00 I like it so much

Only problem that I have picked up so far is my Icon theme sometimes reverts to a hell of a ugly one by itself. I think this has something to do with Opera Browser though. Seems to happen everytime once I close Opera. Hope it will be fixed soon.

 

[eltherza]

The google trends in the article isnt really a fair justification (who searchs "ubuntu linux"?)

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu,+mint,+opensuse,+fedora&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

I believe is a better comparison. Without a doubt ubuntu is losing interest recently, but is still the most popular out there.

 

[MyWorld]

It is well worth it. I even made a donation of $5.00 I like it so much

Only problem that I have picked up so far is my Icon theme sometimes reverts to a hell of a ugly one by itself. I think this has something to do with Opera Browser though. Seems to happen everytime once I close Opera. Hope it will be fixed soon.

Look in the Mint 12 thread for the link I posted about tweaking Mint, there is an option to counter this in the shell.

 

[Ockie]

Look in the Mint 12 thread for the link I posted about tweaking Mint, there is an option to counter this in the shell.

Ohhhhhhhhh ok thanks meneer. I have not had a look at the link properly yet as I am pretty happy the way it is now. Just thought this changing of the icon theme by itself is a bug and I will have to wait for it to be fixed. You soooo clever!

 

[AstroTurf]

Next release needs some major changes when it comes to unity.

It's usable but a bit of a fail as it makes more work for the user.

 

[MickZA]

Wasn't too sure where to mention this as it's primarily a gnome 3 topic but I guess this thread will draw some attention from the Linux users.

I haven't seen it mentioned to date on MyBB (apologies if I missed it) but gnome-shell-frippery might be of interest to gnome power users, check it out here:

http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html

 

[hawker]

Wasn't too sure where to mention this as it's primarily a gnome 3 topic but I guess this thread will draw some attention from the Linux users.

I haven't seen it mentioned to date on MyBB (apologies if I missed it) but gnome-shell-frippery might be of interest to gnome power users, check it out here:

http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html

That looks quite cool, but I quite like my Gnome 3 as it is!

 

[MickZA]

That looks quite cool, but I quite like my Gnome 3 as it is!

Your Gnome 3 is still there and you can select which "fripperies?" you want to enable via the gnome-tweak-tool, in my case a small selection of favourites in the top panel and, the biggie, 12 (stacked 4 by 3) fixed workspaces in the bottom panel. 2 mouse clicks to open a new terminal in a selected workspace

 

[PixelPusha]

I am new to Linux, been trying ubuntu 11.10 now for a while, really loving it I don't understand the hostility towards unity as I tried it as well as the gnome shell, I stuck to the unity as it was something different. I've gotten really used to it now... It's not without fault but hated? I just run that compwiz and customise my desktop to crazy so the unity bar is a minimal issue ? anyhow each to his on I reckon, besides still new to linux

p.s. playonlinux is awesome