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PixInsight => General => Topic started by: Nocturnal on 2017 July 12 10:24:01
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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 :)
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Hi all,
I'm just bumping this topic to see if more users might care to submit their details.
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I expect that Juan would have a reasonable idea of relative popularity from the download stats.
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I suppose the download stats can be skewed by people downloading the same platform more than once but you'd think there are trends.
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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 . . .
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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 |
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Not a bad guess then Sander.
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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.