Manjaro #1 on DistroWatch

[Scott]

Justing mentioning it as an interesting topic of discussion. I don't think I can remember a time when Mint wasn't in the #1 slot. I supposed the times are changing.

[TheDead]

It's a putsch!!!

Indeed a rare occasion. I was impressed by Manjaro but stopped using it since used too much ressources.
They stopped making the 32 bits version also (last was 17.0.6).
Was the best Arch distro I tried though.

Cheers!

[torreydale]

Not sure I believe it.

[TheDead]

Captin'! It is... indeed true :

[Wirezfree]

Must be true,, never any "Fake News"   

[TheDead]

@torreydale is just trying to build a wall... a BIG WALL. But he wants the Mexican goverment to pay.


(Just joking Torrey! )

[trinidad]

It's just page hits at D-watch.
I think the big 4 order of Linux OSs in actual use is probably still the same.

Debian
Ubuntu *counting all the flavors
Red Hat *RHEL & Fedora
Free BSD *Slackware

Goes down pretty fast after that, the rest being mostly derivatives of one or more of the above.
I could be wrong. Ubuntu may be #1 overall, but not even close on servers. That would Debian, with a number still actually growing.

TC

[torreydale]

I'm not saying I didn't believe the site had it that way on their list.  I just don't believe it reflects actual clicks by actual people. 

[GregO]

It's all a matter of opinion across the web.

I was impressed by Manjaro but stopped using it since used too much ressources.

Right.
I went by something like this when I was looking for my first Linux OS...
https://fossbytes.com/best-lightweight-linux-distros/

If I didn't mind using a resource hog for an operating system, I wouldn't have nuked windows 10 and installed Linux Lite.

[Jerry]

When you have 11 versions of your OS, you better be No.1! And by versions I mean DE. Combined arch's would be double that. The collective clicks alone...

[Ottawagrant]

Manjaro is not my favorite Arch distro. But I want to give credit to Manjaro for one thing. They were once heavily (HEAVILY!) criticized for not keeping up to date with security patches. That they cleaned up. If I remember (it's a few years ago) a whole new team took over the distro. Might be wrong on that. But always fun to see a shakeup in the 'big 4'. Real or just on paper.

[TheDead]

Debian is the clear "core/backbone" winner having Ubuntu flavors using it and having spot 2-3-4 (currently).
I don't see charts on this though. Would be Interesting to have a "core" and a "DE" chart on DistroWatch
Always fun to see the familly tree or periodic table on the subject :
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=family-tree

Cheers!

[Jerry]

Wonder where we would rank for the distros that offer one DE and soon to be one arch (x64)?

[Nyto]

   Loved the 'periodic table' representation.

Take a look at this, a different representation, not sure how "refreshed" it is:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

[TheDead]

That chart is below the periodic table on the Distrowatch page.