I use a variety of metrics to judge the popularity of Linux distros. One of them is the Distrowatch.com Page Hit Ranking counter, which is located on the Distrowatch.com home page (look to the bottom right). Distrowatch.com has pages dedicated to practically all versions of Linux and, as its name suggests, the counter simply shows how many hits each page gets. It’s an unscientific measure, for sure, but useful nonetheless.
For the last year or so Ubuntu has been king of the page count hill but, data from the last seven days shows it’s been overtaken by openSUSE, aka SUSE Linux. Data from the past 30 days shows the two distros almost neck and neck, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see SUSE ultimately overtake Ubuntu.
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