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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu: millions of contributors?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:07:39 -0400
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Joel wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>
>>"By using Ubuntu you can benefit from the contributions of millions of 
>>users from all over the world, from direct contributions and feature 
>>designs to two decades of learning resources and troubleshooting advice."
>>
>>https://ubuntu.com/desktop
>>
>>Millions?  They must consider each bug report to be a contribution.

    "Ubuntu Desktop has more than 6 million monthly active users (based on
    devices checking for desktop-specific updates and not including those
    behind a corporate firewall or proxy). Ubuntu Desktop is by far the most
    popular Linux distribution for developers (~27% in the 2023 Stack Overflow
    developer survey)"

> Ubuntu is just a stock distro, no seasoned user is likely to use it,
> although there are some exceptions.

It probably has some stability benefit for "developers".

I have it on my old ASUS laptop. But I prefer Debian (testing or unstable) and
Arch.

Doesn't matter a lot, it's personal preference in the end.

-- 
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