2012/9/18 Jon Dowland wrote: >> There's no need to walk through the minefield, it's already done. >> Fedora lost more than half of the user base with the Fedora 15 >> release (GNOME3 and systemd). > > [citation-needed] Good point. Initially it was a personal feeling. Many fedora users I know have switched to CentOS/ScientificLinux/Ubuntu/Mint/etc after Fedora15 release. A few others just use old Fedora14 manually updating it when needed. Among those still using Fedora15+ most GNOME users switched to XFCE/LXDE. But those "users I know" are still not too much to talk about all users. So I did some research. Fedora provides a nice stats page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics The best part of it is IP stats per release. After some manual digging through the history of that page I was able to build a chart (attached) comparing some sort of popularity among releases. I understand that it's not perfect. But I don't know any better. For a good chart I need raw stats data which Fedora doesn't provide (yet?) Fedora lost about 40% in popularity comparing just F14 and F15. But acceptance of F15 release was ~3 times worse than F14. ~80% of users stayed on F14, after F15 release. On the other hand only ~30% were loyal to F15. The other 70% dropped F15 as soon as F16 was out. Now, 2 years after release, F14 is still on top by the number of IPs, after F8. Looks like the case of F8 vs F9 is going to repeat again (F9 was a KDE4+upstart release, F15 was GNOME3+systemd). PS: I wish Debian had a similar stats page. It's now possible with http.debian.org. -- Serge
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