The Distrowatch BSD ranking

[sidetone]

Perhaps debate has more to offer than direct vote count. There could be a true or informational statement, or valid opinion from a minority of OS users, and vote count in favor of a highly popular OS doesn't make that less true.

 

[scottro]

I do vaguely remember some distribution or another, putting on their forums, something like, everyone go to to distrowatch and do something to increase that distribution's popularity. That was a long time ago, but I'm sure it still occurs. I can only repeat that DistroWatch themselves say don't take it too seriously and don't consider it an accurate representation of a distribution's actual popularity.

 

[doul]

Of course, DistroWatch is only a small window into reality, but cheating doesn't last in the long run; if you smooth the curves, it disappears completely.

 

[scottro]

In fairness, it was one person who posted a thread like let's all do this on distrowatch, and several people said, no that's a bad idea, not least because someone will mention it elsewhere and give <distro> a bad name.