{"id":52867,"date":"2023-01-02T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=52867"},"modified":"2023-01-02T23:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T23:23:50","slug":"most-popular-linux-distros-according-to-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/most-popular-linux-distros-according-to-reddit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers Don’t Lie: Arch Linux Reigns Supreme on Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The popularity of individual Linux distributions has always piqued the interest of the Linux community. Every year, new ones emerge, with some gaining popularity at the expense of others losing it for various reasons. In other words, the popularity of different Linux distributions is dynamic and challenging to track metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many years, Distrowatch<\/a> has been used as an example in measuring this factor. However, the metric used there, unique page views<\/a> of a specific Linux distribution, is hard to accept without reservation, even though it provides a good indication of popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So our team decided to take a new approach, using publicly available data on the number of Reddit (subreddits) community members. It is the world’s leading social news aggregation platform, with around 430 million users<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Users can join a specific community of interest, and we focused our attention on the communities of individual Linux distributions. Therefore, the indicator that a user has explicitly stated an interest in joining one of the many Linux communities available can be used to compare the popularity of particular Linux distributions with high confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n