Project announced of hardware used in Linux over the past 5 years. The study involved users who uploaded hardware samples during this period using the hw-probe program. correlate with results from a year ago from Canonical.
Despite the fact that for most parameters, the statistics from Canonical and Linux-Hardware.org differ within 10 percent, there are notable discrepancies for certain metrics. For instance, according to Linux-Hardware.org, the number of 32-bit Ubuntu installations is 8% (compared to 2% by Canonical), usage of a single GPU is reported at 80% (versus 94% by Canonical), and the PPI of monitors used is below 120 in 72% of cases (against 33% by Canonical).
A significant difference between Linux-Hardware.org and Canonical's report is the ability to view detailed specifications of each computer participating in the statistics collection, as well as a greater number of tracked hardware/OS parameters and support for all Linux distributions without exception. Each statistics page features both circular and linear diagrams over time, allowing users to see how preferences change. However, linear diagrams depend on the project's popularity growth, so attention should be paid more to the ratio of values rather than their absolute growth. The report is also on GitHub, just like all anonymized user samples. Suggestions for additional types of statistics that may interest users can be left in the comments.
Source: opennet.ru
