Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 14, 2019 22:18 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by mgb
Parent article: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

My preconceived notion of GNOME's userbase is "GNOME developers, plus people who accept the default configuration of whatever desktop Linux distribution they installed".

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 15, 2019 19:43 UTC (Fri) by tpo (subscriber, #25713) [Link] (4 responses)

> My preconceived notion of GNOME's userbase is "GNOME developers, plus people who accept the default configuration of whatever desktop Linux distribution they installed".

Some data:

http://tpo.sourcepole.ch/articles/194%20popularity-of-des...

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 16, 2019 1:05 UTC (Sat) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844) [Link] (2 responses)

Here is some different data: interesting because Arch Linux has no default desktop environment nor window manager. Most popular, in order, are plasma, gnome, xfde, openbox, and i3.

https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 16, 2019 5:15 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

> https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun

It seems a little odd that file managers don't correspond to the desktop environment in these stats. What's the explanation for that?

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 16, 2019 17:45 UTC (Sat) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844) [Link]

My guess: folks who use window managers rather than desktop environments may decide to also install a file manager to use with their WM. So for example nautilus file manager has as much share as gnome desktop environment plus a little more, due to the i3, xmonad, sway etc users who also installed it.

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 18, 2019 22:56 UTC (Mon) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link]

I prefer these graphs from the Debian Popularity Contest:

Debian - SysV vs. systemd popularity as total number installed

Debian - SysV vs. systemd popularity as a Percentage of Installs

SysV use in Debian at this point is a rounding error.

Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 22, 2019 10:59 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> "GNOME developers, plus people who accept the default configuration of whatever desktop Linux distribution they installed".

Which is why my make.conf has "-gtk -gnome" in it ... (gentoo make options, for those who don't know). In other words, "disable them if you can".

Cheers,
Wol