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stopping my escape?

Posted Jan 17, 2013 18:27 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: stopping my escape? by jospoortvliet
Parent article: Fedora 18 released

Not two years ago, GNOME probably was #1, now it's fighting for 3rd place in most polls.

Do you have any references, please? I always struggle to find out how my favorite environment (XFCE, what else) is doing in these turbulent times.

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stopping my escape?

Posted Jan 19, 2013 22:30 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

I didn't have anything specific in mind, but a google gave me the yearly linuxquestions.org poll for example (XFCE is 2nd, close to KDE) (2012 ones require an account it seems). Different nr's in different places though, in CZ, GNOME Shell is 2nd, same here.

stopping my escape?

Posted Jan 19, 2013 23:27 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Good data points. My popcon data always shows GNOME well ahead, but that is because it is the default desktop installed. XFCE4 seems to be ahead of KDE, and GNOME seems to have an interesting bump about half a year ago -- but it is an artifact of the total number of Debian installations.

But I never know if I get my packages right -- actually I firmly believe I get them wrong.