leventov March 18, 2014 at 17:46

Distribution, environment, window manager of Linux at home?

The purpose of the polls is to find out the “balance of power" on home computers and laptops. In all surveys, you can choose several options.

The first survey about operating systems is not the main goal, he added it, so as not to offend those who do not use Linux. It will not show the real relationship, because this post is posted only in the hubs "Linux" and "Operating Systems".

Previous distribution polls:
Which free OS distributions do you use? - January 13, 2010
What Linux distributions do you use on desktops? - November 27, 2011

Previous polls about workspaces and shells:
your home “work environment”? - June 15, 2007
Which desktop do you mainly use?- July 17, 2009
What work environment do you usually use? - January 11, 2012
Your main linux desktop environment - May 22, 2012

For accuracy, the elementary OS distribution option and the Mutter / Muffin window managers were added when there were already about 200 votes, dwm , i3 and StumpWM window managers about 300 votes , window managers Metacity / Marco and OLWM - approximately 450 votes, working environment Trinity - 1150 votes.

This will help to estimate how many votes these options have lost, because they were not from the very beginning.

A bit of analytics about distributions

Compared with the previous poll two and a half years ago:
Growing up: The
beginner elementary OS is already in 6th-7th place in popularity, overtaking old people like openSUSE and CentOS.
Mint + 60%
Arch + 30%

With my own / hard to say: Debian , Gentoo , Fedora , CentOS .

Fall:
Ubuntu -15%, but still dominates, overtaking Debian 3 times, and Mint even more. I still don’t understand where the fable came from about the fact that Mint is the most popular distribution.
Mandriva , openSUSE , Slackware .

Only registered users can participate in the survey. Please come in.

What operating systems do you use on home computers and laptops?

1.9% BSD 114
0.4% KolibriOS 29
77.3% Linux 4558
13.6% MacOS X 803
0.2% ReactOS 15
0.3% Solaris 21
64.3% Windows 3790
0.8% Other 51
0.1% I have no home computer or laptop 8

What Linux distributions do you use on home computers and laptops?

0.6% ALT 37
11.3% Arch 650
3.8% CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 218
21.1% Debian 1207
5.6% Fedora 325
6.7% Gentoo 385
0.5% Mandriva 30
15.8% Mint 905
4.4% openSUSE 254
0.8% Slackware 47
54.1% Ubuntu / Kubuntu / Lubuntu / Xubuntu 3099
2.8% Other 165
1.1% Custom build / custom 68
0.1% don't know 8
0.4% What is a distribution? 23
10% I do not use Linux neither at home nor on laptops 576
5.8% elementary OS 336

What Linux environments or shells do you use on home computers and laptops?

10.5% Cinnamon 578
9.1% GNOME 2,501
20.5% GNOME 3 1127
21.8% KDE 1197
7.2% LXDE 396
7.9% MATE 434
26.8% Unity 1472
21% Xfce 1156
8.2% Other 450
2.4% Custom / Custom 135
7.5% Only console, only hardcore 414
1% don't know 60
0.6% What is a working environment, shell? 35
9.7% I do not use Linux neither at home nor on laptops 537
0.3% Trinity 19

What Linux window managers do you use on home computers and laptops?

6.6% awesome 320
30.8% Compiz 1479
2.2% Fluxbox 108
14.4% KWin 691
10.7% Openbox 514
0.2% ratpoison 10
9% Xfwm 436
1.7% xmonad 83
4.1% Other 201
0.4% Self-written / custom 23
7.4% Only the console, only the hardcore 355
12.3% Don't Know 592
6.4% What is a window manager? 310
10.4% I do not use Linux neither at home nor on laptops 499
4.1% Mutter / Muffin 200
1% dwm 50
2.6% i3 126
0% StumpWM 4
4.4% Metacity / Marco 213
0.1% OLWM 5

Did you know your window manager before reading this post?

56% Yes 2,638
17% There were vague guesses 801
12.5% No 593
2.2% did not know (a) what a window manager is 105
4% What is a window manager? 193
8% I do not use Linux neither at home nor on laptops 380

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