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Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In response to an article claiming Ubuntu didn't reach its goal of 200 million users this year — a goal set out by Mark Shuttleworth in 2011 to surpass 200 million users by 2015 — a Canonical engineer has come out to say the opposite. Dustin Kirkland, a member of Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, has come out to say there are more than one billion Ubuntu users. His billion tally though does include cloud/container instances as well as those shopping online at Wallmart, watching popular movies where the studios used Ubuntu servers, streamed from Netflix, rode with Uber, and other businesses that rely upon Ubuntu servers.
When you miss a metric, redefine the metric.
Wallmart?
Wall mart?
smh
and Netflix uses FreeBSD, you pathetic lying sack of shit!
So does this mean that Microsoft should now count anyone who has looked through a window as a Windows user?
Over the entire population of the Earth uses Windows.
Not less than that. Ubuntu is great. But didn't reach the 200M users target. Period.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
So earth has like 4.7 billion people on it, are you trying to tell me that one in five of those are full-time ubuntu users? I don't believe you one iota.
Since MINT is a fork but uses Ubuntu as an upstream can we count them too?
Up until they started piping info to Cononical servers I liked Ubuntu. IMO that was a big mistake. Maybe they were targeting 200M desktop users. It seems like they were too controversial on a couple things which created some headwinds. Static server instances may be valid IMO. I spin up Ubuntu VMs in some instances for quick tests. Mostly as an end point for something I can use ping/traceroute from and don't have to license. Not to run it as my main desktop or leave it around doing anything more useful.
In that case I would say every single person worldwide is a windows user multiplied by how often they pay taxes. After all, most governments are running windows *somewhere*. What a stupid way to measure things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable
How many Ubuntu installations are presently running?
Don;t bother with excuses like; 'there's no way to count'. Canonical can get a very good/close measure by looking at IPs on their update servers.That's assuming that they're not uniquely tagging installations, which I believe that they are.
What's the real number? Windows 10 alone has over 70 million installs, and people are resisting it.
A person who is visiting a website hosted on an Ubuntu server is NOT an Ubuntu users. Sorry. Please try again.
Every day looking more and more like Microsoft. You are beginning to spin, distort and lie almost as efficiently as they do.
Let the mods put this down to -1 so no one has to read it. You replied with an automatic plus one score, so now people reading +1 comments want to know what you are replying to. Just don't do it. I modded you down as flamebait because you are inciting people to read flamebait. I might mod my own AC comment down if I can.
If you're going to count a person as a user of a product then said user needs to be aware that they're using the product and know what it is. Otherwise, they aren't a user.
when the problem is canonical, pronounced "comical"? i've been on board for 10 years and see no reason to leave.
Doesn't Canonical still provide Lubuntu or Xubuntu? Or do those not count as normal Ubuntu distros?
Ubuntu users pegged?
I hope that's an optional thing.
Solving Unix problems since 1989...
The number of users of unity desktop: 7
The number of satisfied users of unity desktop: 0
What if you show 200 million unique IPs? Wouldn't that be proof? Wouldn't IPs be a good start even if they under represented the real number?
The point is that if they had 200 million of more installs, they have likely means of determining/demonstrating that. This asshat's attempt to redefine and inflate the metric says that they didn't even come close.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just a fact.
If these "users" are in fact true, then they will have a user ID on the systems they used. No user ID, you're not a user. Pretty simple, really.
While clearly this is a gross misuse of the word 'users,' arguing the semantics of it is kind of rhetorical (you may as well put on an orange toupee).
We could pick him apart for using the word 'users' in an inappropriate fashion, but the heart of what he says *is* something significant: Ubuntu touches the lives of far more people than actually realize that it exists. Sure, watching the movie doesn't make me an Ubuntu user, but the fact still remains that Ubuntu has influenced my life in some fashion by being a part of that movie being made. It's a sign that Linux has gained some sort of foot-hold in the world and won't likely be dying anytime soon.
So if his goal was 200 million users at the end of the year and when he said it we were clearly much more than 200 users, what was his goal?
To reduce the number of people using Ubuntu to less than 200 million?
Maybe that would explain the UI changes...
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
In 2008/9/10 Untuntu was grat because they just fixed some thing which needed fixing.
from 2010-2011 Ubuntu got a little torublesome since they continued to fixing thing which did not need fixing in their own way (graphics/deskton enviroment)
after 2011 it becam unbearable since they did not even finish the things they started and neglected their core feature (stable as debian but easier to install on laptops)
That being said, i actually own two devices which had ubuntu preinstalled.
I just don't get it. After all these years, freetards still insist that Linux has a place as a desktop OS. Well ... it does. Last place.
Servers? Unquestionably a huge and vital presence. Let's leave it where it works best.
Time to cry two tears in a bucket and say f#*k it -- goodbye desktop linux arguments.
Frammin' on the jim-jam, frippin' at the krotz!
Yeah! We know who you are Anonymous Coward!
No way... I've downloaded Ubuntu many times over the past 7 years - Stopped using it shortly there after each time. I just can't look back after that Unity debacle, what a wretched interface . I would bet he considers me 'a user'.. I've gone farther up the ecochain and use Debian.
I'm not sure what this number does it mean, but the Ubuntu community on G+ has 245,066 members. I think it's a good number, considering it's a opt-in signup.
He counted users the same way Oracle would have counted users of Oracle database for licensing purposes. If a user connects to Oracle database to get data, they are counted.
I've worked on ads that were seen by tens of millions of people, who knew that in the process they became windows users! I should apparently be hired as a Microsoft Evangelist. /s
Windows was also used by Weta on those films. Every film has at least one windows license doing something. That means every Ubuntu user is simultaneously a Windows and OSX user.
If all this is true, then we have all drank the piss of the same dinosaur which somehow leads to the conclusion that we are all related.
In addition, we can now round up those people who want to round up the first lot of people that want to round up people.
The Ultimate in "market share".
Yeah, but does Toto use Ubuntu in any of their products?
I've been Microsoft Windows free for years and haven't noticed any dilution in my computing experience.
Count my machines out after Ubuntu decided to go SystenD
They got system installs, less interesting than users but still useful.