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Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere

Posted by BeauHD on from the all-around-us dept.

prisoninmate writes: To celebrate the launch of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, due for release later this month, on April 21, Canonical put together an interesting infographic, showing the world how popular Ubuntu is. From the infographic, it looks like there are over 60 million Ubuntu images launched by Docker users, 14 million Vagrant images of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from HashiCorp, 20 million launches of Ubuntu instances during 2015 in public and private clouds, as well as bare metal, and 2 million new Ubuntu Cloud instances launched in November 2015. Ubuntu is used on the International Space Station, on the servers of popular online services like Netflix, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, Dropbox, PayPal, Wikipedia, and Instagram, in Google, Tesla, George Hotz, and Uber cars. It is also employed at Bloomberg, Weta Digital and Walmart, at the Brigham Young University to control the Mars Rover, and it is even behind the largest supercomputer in the world.

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  1. Desktop Reporting In! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    One more desktop install reporting in! They laugh...then you win.

    1. Re: Desktop Reporting In! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Clearly Red Hat is for inbred racists then.

  2. And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by Zibodiz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is what irks me about /. Even though Ubuntu is an overall fantastic flavor of Linux, if you read the comments here, you'd get the impression that it's more loathed than a Microsoft product.
    I personally have had very positive experiences with Ubuntu, and have helped quite a few 'non-nerds' start using it on their computers, when Windows and Mac weren't good fits. I own a computer shop, and probably install Ubuntu about once a month -- it's not leading the pack by any means, but it's a very viable option. The simplicity of the distro, along with the fantastic userbase to provide support, have really helped make it the Linux of choice for the average consumer, IMHO.

    1. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by Harlequin80 · · Score: 2

      Agreed. But that said slashdot is generally a negative place. Ubuntu lost me to mint when they went to unity but it had served me well for a number of years prior. It had issues that I couldn't be bothered working around at the time. I haven't bothered looking at it since then because Mint hasn't done anything that makes me want to change it. If it does I would revisit ubuntu.

    2. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by gfxguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I've been a computer programmer professionally for over 20 years - I've been using Ubuntu lately (8 years or so) because it's easy. I don't want to spend my time being a system administrator, I just want to work, and Ubuntu is pretty damn good at that, pathological case anecdotes aside. It's not perfect by any stretch, and I've had my problems, but by and large it's been plug and play.

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    3. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by KGIII · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's Arch. We had a guy try it six years ago and he still hasn't returned from the installation process.

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    4. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by Harlequin80 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Mint. Mint is brilliant. It will change your life because you will stop noticing that the OS is even there. Everything just works. Cinnamon fits me like a glove, does everything the way that I would want it to. And every time I update to a new release I get the feeling of "wow, nice touch. You have really polished that" not "Oh fuck me, what have you done?!?! WHY? WHERE IS THAT TOOL I USED DAILY?!?!?!?!"

    5. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by Sesostris+III · · Score: 4, Interesting

      When 16.04 comes out I'll be replacing Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) with Ubuntu on my desktop.

      When I first installed LMDE it was a rolling edition, based on Debian Testing. Now it's based on Stable, and frankly has become old. (Currently the screensaver is showing a message on startup telling me it - the screensaver - is old and I ought to upgrade to a newer version!). To be fair, I did initially install the XFCE edition, which is no longer a Mint DE flavour.

      I did think about replacing it with Mint Cinnamon 17.3, but again this is based on Ubuntu 14.04, and so based on something now relatively old. I think I want to get back to something relatively modern, easy to use, and mainstream.

      Unity has apparently improved dramatically. I've tried it with a 15.10 live disk and I'm sure I can live with it. (And I will use the main version rather than one of the other official flavours).

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    6. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by somenickname · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I was actually a moderator for the Ubuntu forums for the first few years of Ubuntu (I had an @ubuntu.org e-mail address and everything). In those days, Ubuntu had a massive impact on the accessibility of Linux to the average computer user. I could genuinely recommend it to anyone I knew. But, when KDE/Gnome went off the fucking rails and Ubuntu went the direction of Unity, it was almost like a mini dark ages for the Linux desktop. Basically, all the traction, all the trust, all the familiarity was struck down from upon high by people wielding job descriptions like User Experience Engineer.

      Yes, assholes wearing skinny jeans destroyed the Linux desktop. And Canonical didn't help the situation when it started shipping Amazon connected desktop searches. However, having said all that, I decided to try vanilla Ubuntu recently, and, frankly, it's not that bad. It's actually really nice. In fact, I had a moment of terror when I wondered if my drunken ramblings had directly influenced the interface because it mostly worked how I wanted it to work. A power user will need to tweak it a bit but, in general, Unity might fit a power users workflow better than it might seem at first glance.

      Now, that's just desktop stuff. On a server/VM/container/whatever, Ubuntu is the go to flavor. Without hesitation. If you don't use it, people will give you the stink eye and ask you to justify why you didn't. It's easy to use, it works and it's so widely used that when you say "apt-get", no one will give you a funny look. In a sense, Ubuntu started out as Linux for Humans and ended up being Linux for the Cloud. I doubt that Canonical even expected that but, frankly, I'm very much OK with that situation and I wish them the best.

      P.S. I still love you, Debian. You'll always have a place on my laptop.

    7. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 2

      Why confine yourself to Unity? You do know you can select a different desktop environment at login just by installing the appropriate package, right?, e.g kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop etc.

      There's practically no difference between the various ?buntu flavours except which DE gets packaged on the CD you download.

    8. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by nnull · · Score: 2

      Arch here as well, but I've installed and ran Ubuntu servers. When it comes to setting up a server, Ubuntu is simply a breeze to install and handling patches/upgrades is easy. Ubuntu community has been great at resolving issues while Arch will ban you for complaining about an application that doesn't work in Arch on their forums. Still, I like Arch.

    9. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by flyingfsck · · Score: 2

      People - especially geeks - like to moan and bitch. I've been using Fedora KDE for the past 10 years. In general it works just as well as my Mac. Ubuntu is fine too - I use it with XFCE usually. Linux has a plethora of desktop systems and instead of moaning and bitching about one, everyone is free to use another one.

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    10. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by Graymalkin · · Score: 2

      I'm using Ubuntu on my laptops anymore for this reason. It's the one distro where I can be reasonably sure that sleep and WiFi will work on a laptop without me having to do a bunch of extra work.

      I need to get stuff done on my computer, not troubleshoot it. It was a fun learning experience twenty years ago but today it is just a pain in my ass. If I barely have time for the things I want to do I definitely don't have time for things I don't need to do.

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  3. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Java is installed in over 3 billion devices in the world.

  4. Meaning like Red Hat? 1-888-733-4281 by raymorris · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those unfamiliar, the previous poster may be referring to Red Hat. They provide ten-year support. Their tech support phone number is 1-888-733-4281 .

    1. Re:Meaning like Red Hat? 1-888-733-4281 by GNious · · Score: 4, Funny

      Microsoft support is much better!
      They have an Indian guy in South Africa call you to tell you when something is wrong on your computer, then guide you through a fix using their downloadable tool, and if that fails, you can pay them to simply fix it for you!

      Did wonders for my Macbook Pro!

  5. Ps they won't ask you to reboot twice and reinstal by raymorris · · Score: 2

    Ps, like 3ware support, Red Hat provides actual techs. They won't read a script asking you to reboot three times, then tell you to re-install from scratch, losing all of your data.

  6. Linked infographic has JPEG artifacts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article linked to is blog spam with an ugly JPEG version of the infographic. The original PNG infographic is here: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/07/ubuntu-is-everywhere/

  7. Re:MS should buy them out not just partner with th by lucm · · Score: 4, Funny

    > MS should buy them out not just partner with them

    If MS started offering Ubuntu long ago and not just now, they'd be rich by now!

    SQL Server on Linux, and now Bash on Windows... MS-Linux is coming.

    Here's my conspiracy theory: they annoyed everyone with Metro, then Windows 10, just to pave the way for MS-Linux. Brilliant.

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  8. Re:"Coke sez Coke is deh best!" by freeze128 · · Score: 2

    Even if you do keep going, there isn't much to see. This is the worst infographic I have ever seen. There are no pie charts or bar graphs. There are no comparisons to other OSs. It's just useless.

  9. Re:Virtualbox VM's by flyingfsck · · Score: 2

    Yeah well, changing from sudo to normal isn't exactly hard. The better you know UNIX, the less it matters which distribution you use, since they are all the same underneath. People who bitch and moan are usually the young and impatient who don't want to RTFM. The people who don't moan and bitch are usually the older ones who don't need to RTFM anymore.

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  10. Ubuntu is awsome by cuby · · Score: 2

    Compare how a linux desktop was 10 years ago and how it is today. Like it or not, Ubuntu has driven most of the chages/controversies. I like to use it. Has it's issues, but overal, I realy enjoy it. I have much more complains from Gnome, for dumbing down too much, than from the Unity interface. I think most Slashdot users are too conservative to accept some changes and are allways complaining and acepting WORSE alternatives because they look "like it used to be". This is the problem with Slashdot. No forward thinking anymore.

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  11. Re:MS should buy them out not just partner with th by lucm · · Score: 2

    They can't compete because Windows is PITA to move from x86 to other architectures and because Windows is expensive to run (it is inefficient - yes it is better than ever before but it is still far behind).

    Windows runs out of the box with a fairly good driver coverage of all components and peripherals on pretty much any mainstream computer. Call it what you want but that's pretty impressive. Of course they blackmail OEMs and shove tons of useless drivers in there but still.

    Give me a mystery server and no internet access, and I'd bet a dollar that besides OpenSuse there's only Windows that will install properly on that thing. Anything else will require a driver treasure hunt.

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