Alexander Schwinn, participant in the development of the Xfce desktop environment and the Thunar file manager, attempted to estimate the approximate number of Xfce users. By evaluating the popularity of major Linux distributions, it was concluded that around 14 million users are using Xfce. The following assumptions were used for the calculation:
- The total number of Linux users is estimated at 120 million.
- Approximately 33% of Linux users use Ubuntu or its derivative distributions on their PCs. Thus, the total number of Ubuntu users is 40 million (nine years ago, according to Canonical, there were 20 million users). Based on survey results, about 15% of Ubuntu users install Xubuntu, which means 15% of 40 million = 6 million Xubuntu users.
- If we assume that 10% of users of distributions other than Ubuntu use Xfce, that would add another 8 million users (10% of 80 million).
- There are approximately 6000 registered developer accounts on gitlab.xfce.org, meaning every 2000th user is registered on gitlab.xfce.org.
Source : opennet.ru
