From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5144C1389E2 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BEF9E0997; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f180.google.com (mail-ig0-f180.google.com [209.85.213.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DEACEE098E for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f180.google.com with SMTP id h15so4435262igd.13 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:16:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=FAIWk9XuwdtBmFzsvTuieb64B70cP5M+9p7+WF5LyEU=; b=P6sJzgQDFUAawHcGRrDEzsN0NVTWD1AByx+qdPMimoiyHl33xKUKA7zM8OtaUfyRQ2 soDJVWtR8c3941BxYuV5uUBgDpYNuZ9Edw76KOFttlioZfkA2cjgi7VP0413mXDcQDSu v45WW4S31ezSyipAw1LNNuRuv1ugPAMQmmIowd2zmlCa9snqTrhAzaNQ0N/oihLMCxnr thbt6r4PbcHk+zrDam7GNRrHqYx0pCDKfE0pIpGaF4alhUxRMMogQmOZq7y17UO5hCwC VwoLhtqWSFdUbYDOjVHq5M+b/ji1zfRl3Ug7lzj7cXjn4vg+3o212zSkfFtY3nleuXsv J4og== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.179.132 with SMTP id bq4mr31090649icb.61.1417101399042; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:16:39 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.9.80 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:16:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <546EE70C.2050506@yourstruly.sx> <20141121173600.GA1029@ca.inter.net> <547370D2.50009@marc-stuermer.de> <54737886.a3a7700a.6f81.4209@mx.google.com> <20141124210516.53a54a90@digimed.co.uk> <54740bae.c12a980a.75de.01e4@mx.google.com> <54758310.c3ea980a.1491.31e1@mx.google.com> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:16:38 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GhUA9PdYRE5u28s2kOHHIdMYeWg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: f7bfb392-cd94-410c-980c-fa0535e2e80c X-Archives-Hash: 5d9e176e9ffbb2012cadb44eb2630d79 On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Gevisz wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > > >>> I prefer Gentoo over Ubuntu for a host of other reasons, but switching >>> from Ubuntu to Gentoo just to get a different desktop seems like >>> overkill. >> >> Strange enough but according to the information from the DistroWatch.com >> Ubuntu lost a lot of users and its status of the most popular Linux >> distribution after switching from Gnome2 to Unity in its 12.04 LTS release. > > It's easy for Distrowatch to claim something that's unprovable. > Yeah, you won't find too much Distrowatch love around here. :) Their metrics are dubious at best. They don't count Gentoo users who don't visit the distrowatch website, and they probably don't count most of the Gentoo users who DO visit the distrowatch website since we tend to follow upstream and don't whore for metrics in all of our user_agent strings or for ad dollars in our default search engines. This actually has involved turning down money in the past. -- Rich