On 09/08/2012 16:50, Darac Marjal wrote:
Fair point. However, comparing[3] popcon results for xfce4-session[1] and
gnome-session[2], less than 4% of debian users use[4] xfce, compared to a
little over 16% who use gnome.

Hmm. My numbers seem a little suspect there. Is a graphical session
REALLY used by such a small majority of the userbase?


You seem to be suggesting that xfce4-session and gnome-session are the only desktop environments - I, for example, use pekwm at the moment (and openbox before that) so will not be in either that 20% (assuming no overlap, which is probably wrong).

Looking at xserver-xorg[0], the most popular X server at the moment, it is installed on 52% of systems partaking in the popularity contest. I suspect this is a reasonable reflection on the number of graphical installs in popcon as a lot of production headless servers will probably not be reporting stats (whereas my headless boxes at home, which do not have an X server installed, do). Because of this I expect the real number of graphical desktop (compared to non-desktop installs) is less than 52%.

 [0] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=xorg

Just my .2

Laurence


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