Platform distribution?

[Nocturnal]

Hi,

Not sure if you have any way to track this but I'm curious how the numbers of Windows/Mac/Linux users compare. I suspect Windows is about 75% of all users, 20% Mac and 5% Linux. Curious what the real numbers are

[Niall Saunders]

Hi all,

I'm just bumping this topic to see if more users might care to submit their details.

[RickS]

I expect that Juan would have a reasonable idea of relative popularity from the download stats.

[Nocturnal]

I suppose the download stats can be skewed by people downloading the same platform more than once but you'd think there are trends.

[Niall Saunders]

Yes - I know that, in the world of PixInsight. 'correct' scientific statistical analysis is 'king'. But, I  still think that an overview of OS usage will be interesting.

Let's see how the Poll develops . . .

[Juan Conejero]

Here are the results, in percentage of the total downloads since January 1 2008, of the following MySQL query on the file_downloads table on our server:

SELECT DISTINCT( user_id ) FROM file_downloads WHERE INSTR( file_path, <platform> ) > 0

where <platform> is one of 'freebsd', 'linux', 'macosx', and 'windows':

FreeBSD	1.72
Linux	5.87
macOS	21.78
Windows	70.63

[chris.bailey]

Not a bad guess then Sander.

[Nocturnal]

Indeed, shockingly accurate If only all my wild guesses were this accurate!

Windows is sometimes treated as the ugly step child of the PI universe but it pays the bills, as I expected.