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Ubuntu Makes Public Desktop Metrics (ubuntu.com)
Canonical introduced Ubuntu Hardware/Software Survey in Ubuntu 18.04 and has since been collecting data (it is optional, and users' consent is taken; Ubuntu says 67 percent users opted in to the survey). Now for the first time, it is revealing the stats, shedding light on how Ubuntu users like things around. The takeaways from the result: Installation Duration: The average install of Ubuntu Desktop takes 18 minutes. Some machines out there can install a full desktop in less than 8 minutes!
Installer Options: Another interesting fact is that the newly introduced Minimum Install option is being used by a little over 15% of our users. This is a brand new option but is already attracting a considerable fanbase.
CPU Count: A single CPU is most common, and this is not very surprising. We haven't broken this down to cores but is something we will look in to.
Disk Partitioning Schemes: Most people choose to wipe their disks and reinstall from scratch. The second most common option is a custom partition table.
Display: Full HD (1080p) is the most popular screen resolution, followed by 1366 x 768, a common laptop resolution. HiDPI and 4k are not yet commonplace.
Installer Options: Another interesting fact is that the newly introduced Minimum Install option is being used by a little over 15% of our users. This is a brand new option but is already attracting a considerable fanbase.
CPU Count: A single CPU is most common, and this is not very surprising. We haven't broken this down to cores but is something we will look in to.
Disk Partitioning Schemes: Most people choose to wipe their disks and reinstall from scratch. The second most common option is a custom partition table.
Display: Full HD (1080p) is the most popular screen resolution, followed by 1366 x 768, a common laptop resolution. HiDPI and 4k are not yet commonplace.
Percentage of people using it: 1% /.: 100%
Number of people using it who have ever touched a boob: 0
Percentages of people using it who also post on
I'd be doing a custom install to have more swap space if it wasn't such a chore to do it manually.
See subject: It's FINALLY gotten to where I prefer it over Windows (@ least 10, 7 I still like) due to excellence in dev tools (FreePascal + Lazarus IDE 1.82 = awesome) which is REALLY all I need.
I have one of those system noted that installed FAST (little longer than they said for me, maybe 20 minutes or so iirc) by using MINIMAL installation choice (installing other things via DISCOVER later (really nice GUI front))!
I tried Linux in 94 (Slackware 1.02) - lousy hardware support/weak in software available (it was only a baby then though). Then Redhat 1999 (better on hardware but still weak (software too & quality of it)). Then 2010 on Kubuntu 10.10 (THEN, I was like "it's close now but no cigar").
HOWEVER 18.04 + patches = excellent...
I mean it: I really, Really, REALLY like it (over Windows of any kind now & BSD (both of which I have on other SSD/HDD here now & what am I running daily? Linux)).
APK
P.S.=> I didn't OPT-IN to that data collection BUT I am contributing to the effort of MAKING Linux even BETTER via creating a "1st of its KIND" program in GUI (afaik/afaict) in APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux (Blows away the Win32/64 model I did years before by FAR on tons of levels (speed/efficiency/features)) https://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12218352&cid=56765500/ & GUI is the FUTURE + "the FUTURE, is now"... apk
Number of people using it who have ever touched a boob: 0
You have identified what appears to be a correlation between lack of breastfeeding and an interest in non-mainstream PC operating systems later in life. Correlation does not imply causation, but it does imply that someone ought to research the common cause.
So what might be the common cause of the two? Is it parenting style? Some missing nutrient in infant formula? Some hereditary disability that leads to both failure to lactate and interest in information technology? A brief Google Search session dug up a demonstrated correlation between bottle feeding and autism, and elsewhere there is a correlation between highest-functioning (Asperger-type) autism and IT interest.
My monitor is about 12 years old. I've thought about buying a new 4k monitor, just because mine is old. This data really surprised me. I figured most people would have 4k monitors by now. (especially with all of the advertising Apple is doing about their Retina displays)
Why is that? Reading some reviews online, a few people said 4k was unusable as a computer monitor because all of the icons became impossibly small. Is that true?
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
or just buy enough ram to meet your memory needs
And attach it to a laptop how? Some compact laptop models sold in 2018, such as the Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series, max out at 4 GB of internal RAM. Would it be practical to buy a USB RAM drive for use as swap, /tmp, and bcache?
How do they know the number of users if consent is required? If they said "don't participate", and Canonical KNOWS this, that means data was sent back to them regardless of consent!
Not that the can't come up with even worse shells. Like any big mobile one. ... the whole point of a computer.
Where is the automatibility in those? You know
But welcome to the past, NotLinux, err, I mean Ubuntu. :)
My first guess is that Canonical has some way of estimating the number of users who consent to security updates from its repository but do not consent to the Hardware/Software Survey.
Ubuntu actually does a minimal installation now? Geez, that could help with the dependency hell if you require less libraries to run things. Ubuntu (very long ago, I admit, 2004 or so) was annoying in that it treated more libraries as mandatory than optional. Every bit of potential functionality had it's library or dependency there, whether or not it bloated your installation or was ultimately going to go unused.
To have a nice pixel density you need a 36" screen. Which means you pay through the nose and use up a lot of desk space.
And when you go for a normal 24" or 26" screen, the pixels only serve to waste CPU resources and have no other purpose. Unless you want to sit as close as you are to your mobile phone screen.
Plus, there are still many things not that well adapted to idiotic pixel densities. Why develop for something, that nobody can see? Not everyone fell for the snobbery social pressure yet, like people did with "audiophile" nonsense.
I would actually like a "wide open space" screen. I'd even go full IMAX experience.
But after rent and utilities, I have about 350 (three fiddy) EUR a month to live.
Win10 takes 18 minutes to check updates, installing those updates requires your bosses approval for a 3 week time off from work, a preacher, a chiropractor, and some green vomit cleaner.
Troll the troll, LOL ;)
How do they know the percentage of opt-ins? Wouldn't knowing require sending a "not interested" message to Canonical? And if Ubuntu is sending data to Canonical regardless of response, isn't that a privacy violation? Or are they basing it on number of downloads vs number of opt-ins?
See subject: Since, as you can see from my last post, when I need something I build its code myself & hopefully others can use it too (they do, I've done well on this hobby project of mine I noted in my last post's "p.s." - even by /.ers https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12265746&cid=56828926/ )
* ... & Me? I like KDE a LOT (better imo than Gnome but this is purely arbitrary personal opinion on these things so see subject...) - What I know thusfar is that I can build for Qt display 'widget' or GTK2/3 easily enough for FreePascal + Lazarus IDE 1.8.2 so I'm not restricted for user applications, so KDE being "open" or NOT (though you say it is for the most part)? Doesn't matter - it's all "abstracted away" to someone like myself who's NOT building "KDE addons" (or whatever they're called, "plasma addons" etc.) but REAL imo, "stand-alone" SINGLE .exe design apps (less "dependencies" which imo hurts ANY platform since in the past I noted stripping things from Linux can "F it up" pretty fast, system-wide) only dependent on OS &/or IP stack API & nothing else really.
APK
P.S.=> Lastly/in any event - funniest part: I have a FUNNY FEELING that my best development ever in years to come on Linux WILL be MY best efforts, ever (good tools now, more experience (decades of it on MANY OS platforms & @ least 12 languages)) oddly as there was a LONG TIME (27++ yrs. or so) I was an "MS Poster Child" until I saw Win10 & the telemetry crap & said "bye bye" when my Win7 64-bit install media FINALLY "bit it" (fate perhaps, lol)... apk
I recently upgraded to a 4K display since my employer was willing to provide me with one. I figured I would mostly just appreciate that it was a physically larger screen than I had had before. I also figured I would get most apps to scale such that they would take up the same space and look the same.
I had a few surprises.
Not surprising is that some apps just don't scale. I've had problems with tk-based apps in particular. But I expected problems with xterm, vncviewer, and other apps that all worked perfectly with a little tweaking. I was surprised how well most stuff worked. Occasionally the only solution is to run the app in a VNC session, and then use the vncviewer to scale it.
What has blown me away is how frustrating I find my other desktop with 1080p screens. My eyes never complained before, but now that I'm used to text properly scaled on a 4K screen, the 1K screens are painful.
So don't upgrade to 4K unless you're ready to upgrade all the computers you regularly use.
My first guess is that OP doesn't need to hibernate his PC because normal sleep is good enough to get the user's computer to the next power outlet (if a laptop) or past a brief power outage (if a desktop on a UPS). In fact, Ubuntu disables hibernate by default in PolicyKit for a couple reasons. One is that hardware support is so spotty. Another is that hibernating with a read-write mounted file system that other systems can write in the meantime can cause data corruption. This could be removable media or a shared partition on a dual-boot system.
Besides, I thought the swap space should be separate from hibernation space in case the committed memory at hibernation time exceeds the size of the swap file. This can be the case if (say) you have 8 GB of RAM and 12 GB of swap, but you have 14 GB of committed memory.
Or are they basing it on number of downloads vs number of opt-ins?
There are ways to count installations. Install image downloads aren't one of them given how easy it is to install multiple machines through sneakernet or BitTorrent. A better way involves estimating how many people are running sudo apt update (or the automatic counterpart) to obtain the latest package index from default repositories.
how is your precious privacy violated by declining to answer a survey, Anonymous Coward? Mind you, if you answer this question, information about your browser, ip address, previous site visited before coming to slashdot, etc. will available to slashdot.or and other sites like google-analytics and content delivery systems. In addition, other readers on this forum will be able to view and respond to your message.
I recently had to reinstall Ubuntu on several machines because of corruption on ext4 partitions due to a power failure. In all cases, it booted to a screen indicating that fsck had to be run manually and then the machine wouldn't boot after running fsck or it would boot but critical apps would crash on startup. I learned my lesson and now ext4 is completely dead to me. When I rebuilt the machines, I used xfs instead since I've been running that on all of my other machines for almost 15 years and have never had stability issues regardless of how many times the machines unexpectedly lost power. Pro tip: if your machine uses UEFI and you want to install Ubuntu with a root partition of xfs, Ubuntu will allow you to do that but it won't boot after installation - you need to create a separate partition for /boot which uses one of the ext variants and then an xfs partition for /.
how is your precious privacy violated by declining to answer a survey, Anonymous Coward?
Asking how they know something is a reasonable question to ask. For example do they get from survey itself? Initial downloads? Package updates? Other signals... NTP pools..etc? If by downloads a single download could result in installation of any number of systems resulting in numbers that are not an accurate reflection of reality.
Operating systems are not online discussion forums. I'm not sure of the utility in attempting to apply parallels between the two. I expect every action I take on a website to result in additional remote server accesses out of necessity. I do NOT expect locally installed and contained software and operating systems to "call home".
Mind you, if you answer this question, information about your browser, ip address, previous site visited before coming to slashdot, etc. will available to Slashdot
You are confused. Prior sites visited are not communicated only the directly referring site when a hyperlink is followed if that site has failed to specify referral data is not to be leaked. People who visit Slashdot regularly probably type it in directly or use a bookmark or something and therefore no such data is transmitted.
will available to slashdot.or and other sites like google-analytics and content delivery systems.
Most people reading this myself included will have taken steps to install filters necessary to address such egregiously unacceptable behavior. Cross site stalking is NOT ok. It doesn't matter what your intention is or how you use the data.
REMEMBER THE MURDER OF IAN MURDOCK, creator of Debian Linux and leading member of the Free Software community, killed Christmas 2015 by the notoriously corrupt San Francisco police department.
You can't buy "Single CPU" systems (well, sorta but not really).
If that's the most common these numbers probably reflect VMs as much as anything. Possibly burner VMs.
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
(APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* See subject: Best part's the Linux 64-bit model's faster & more efficient (does 2x the work in 1/2 the time)
APK
P.S.=> Enjoy a faster/safer/more reliable internet... apk
See subject: ... is that you are a victim of a combined affliction of "ne'er-do-well"-ism (lol) & trollism combined w/ your illiteracy!
* You wish you were me, weirdo...
APK
P.S.=> Keep wasting your time & WASTED life - "your kind" (the NOT-men) are JUST where I want you to be - wasting away w/ idle hands & the devil's workshop (which sends you straight to your own personal hell you TRY put on others as you KNOW you're a flimsy dweeb WASTE - but you can't put your DEVIL into me - I just LAUGH @ "your kind", lol)... apk
Windows has IFS interface allowing new files systems to be plugged in without permission.
In what way? I thought developing to the IFS interface, or any other Windows kernel-level interface for that matter, required paid permission from one of the Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificate authorities trusted by Microsoft. An ordinary $15 open source developer certificate from Certum won't work; it has to be specifically EV for Windows 10 (source), and last I checked, EV certificates were available only to a corporation or LLC, not an individual developer.
Linux is about Choice.
We choose which flavor to run.
We choose if it has a GUI or not.
We choose which GUI is has, if any.
We choose which programs to load.
We choose when to patch, if we like that.
We choose whether to provide "sensor data" to the parent ship.
We choose which kernel to run.
We choose which file system(s) to use.
We choose whether automatic mounting is allowed.
We choose if we want login passwords or not.
We can choose to make a highly secure or un-secure system.
We can choose to run 15 yr old hardware with the current versions of linux. No fork-lift upgrade needed.
We can choose to run legacy BIOS booting or UEFI booting.
We can choose which network setup methods are used - old ifupdown or netplan. You can use network-manager, wicd, or manually setup your networking too.
We can choose which firewall interface is used. iptables, ufw, firewalld.
Sure, different Ubuntu flavors have different defaults, but that doesn't prevent anyone from swapping out/in whatever they prefer.
And these high quality OSes cost $0 in licenses. I purchase 1 software annually, for tax prep. I haven't bought any other software since 2013 that I can remember. The last computer I bought with Windows pre-installed was around 2011-ish. We have 2 Win7 systems - one on a physical laptop and the other, retail copy, running inside a virtual machine (under KVM). These are used for 3 purposes only.
* taxes/finances
* video editing
* 7MC (until the free schedule data ends)
Very few things are mandatory when compared to Apple or Microsoft's fine OSes.
A few things are mandatory with Ubuntu. You **must** use systemd, but if you use a different Linux distro, systemd can be avoided.
Choice. It is a wonderful AND a terrible thing. Canonical is pretty good at using sensible defaults for noobs, but you can go as low-level for control and power as you like.
See subject: You need some. See, the 1st symptom of it is use of FAKE NAMES online for your FAKE LIE of a so-called "LIFE" (of douchedom).
APK
P.S.=> What's it like living a LIE like you do? apk
No, pretty much everything - even GNOME - handles the higher DPI at least moderately well.
The problem is that you need to DRIVE all those pixels, and LCDs are garbage at anything other than native resolution. For gamers, who are usually the primary adopters of any tech, even gimmick ones like 4K, that means an extra $300-$800 to have your games not look like @$$, and even then you're going to have to sacrifice certain VQ options to keep a decent framerate.
I do NOT expect locally installed and contained software and operating systems to "call home".
Then how do you expect that the publisher of security updates for your operating system notify you when said updates are available?
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