{"id":218896,"date":"2017-07-10T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=218896"},"modified":"2017-07-10T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:20:44","slug":"most-popular-laptop-linux-distros-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/218896-most-popular-laptop-linux-distros-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Most popular laptop Linux distros revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=2017-laptop-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Phoronix\u2019s Linux Laptop Survey<\/strong><\/a> revealed that Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution for laptops, followed by Arch Linux and Debian.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoronix survey was run over two weeks and attracted 30,171 responses from Linux users.<\/p>\n<p>The results revealed that 62% of Linux users are not dual-booting their laptop with another operating system.<\/p>\n<p>30% of Linux users said they are dual-booting their Linux laptop with Windows, while 4.4% use another Linux distro for dual-booting.<\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows the most popular Linux distros, based on the Phoronix Linux Laptop Survey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Linux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218906\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Linux.jpg\" alt=\"Linux\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Linux.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Linux-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/217942-linux-kernel-4-12-released.html\">Linux Kernel 4.12 released<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoronix\u2019s Linux Laptop Survey revealed that Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution for laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2886,1799,6967,967],"class_list":["post-218896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-debian","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218932,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218896\/revisions\/218932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}