How many people do use Arch?

tlaloc · 2008-04-22 14:54:36

Bonzodog wrote:

I know for a fact that the Ubuntu forums have gained arch at least 100 users alone, due to the Arch Sub-Forum there.

OMG - this does not really accord well with more than 14.000 registered users over here. And how many users ever care to register at a forum at all - one out of five, out of ten? I would strongly suggest to introduce a Ubuntu Sub-Forum (what a silly idea), and then we would count THEIR numbers .

PS: Don't trust any statistic which you haven't faked yourself.

utore · 2008-04-27 04:23:07

Arch is the only distro that I truly feel at home in. I'm also dual booting Debian and when I boot into that, I feel like a fish out of water.

aardwolf · 2008-04-27 08:56:12

I'm using it on two computers.It's also the only distro I have used for longer than a year (namely, 3 years so far).

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Statix · 2008-04-27 23:49:41

Arkane wrote:

Lesson -> The devs should have added spyware in Pacman. It's too late now .

pacman -S pacman

It is never too late!

You can count me as one of those who found Arch from the Ubuntu sub forum. I was looking at the other OSes forum cause I was ready to move on.

cyberpunk · 2008-04-28 00:56:34

I have been using Arch for months without even registering on the forums. I've read a lot though. My favorite part of the forum is monthly screenshots

Llama · 2008-06-25 08:58:58

PS: Don't trust any statistic which you haven't faked yourself.

How very true... I never heard on this thread about the stat model used. Sorting through the forum user list I've established one more or less solid fact: there are about 1000 users of any activity, depending on the criteria. I can't see how it makes for a host of actual users 20000 strong.

For me it settled after no less than 30 posts, and the Arch isn't my first distro. I'm not a guru, though.

jerryluc · 2008-06-28 14:38:21

Would it be possible to check how many downloads it is from the official repos?

ibendiben · 2008-06-28 23:06:27

Go count, you'll find it's just one huge skeleton lifting a car above his head!

iphitus · 2008-06-29 11:09:34

Nope, because there's mirrors -- next to none of the downloads are from the main repos.

vennen · 2008-06-29 20:05:30

Reading russian linux portal www.linux.org.ru I found a lot of Arch users. Arch is popular, mostly among 'enlightened' ppl :-) I mean among people who had played with Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora etc. and realized that there is a configurable rolling release distro - Arch.

Btw, iphitus, I still didnt overcome 'netcfg' for wired IEEE 802.1x WPA MD5 authentication :-)

Cyrusm · 2008-06-30 17:25:07

I'll tell you how many people are using Arch. Everyone who matters. I've also found that the people using arch are almost exclusively both friendly and extremely intelligent! something you don't find in other distro's (read through their forums sometime, you'll see what I'm talking about!) besides, it doesn't matter how many people are using arch, what's important is that the people who come to arch come of their own accord and out of their own curiousity. elsewise we'd just be another ubuntu. and I know no one here want's that!

Dusty · 2008-06-30 19:59:58

Cyrusm wrote:

I've also found that the people using arch are almost exclusively both friendly and extremely intelligent!

Except for neotuli who can only manage to be one or the other at any given instant. :D:D

Dusty

Misfit138 · 2008-06-30 20:47:34

Dusty wrote:

Cyrusm wrote:
I've also found that the people using arch are almost exclusively both friendly and extremely intelligent!
Except for neotuli who can only manage to be one or the other at any given instant. :D:D
Dusty

So, he's either dumb and happy or an evil genius at any given time....lemme write this down, I have a crayon right here...

phrakture · 2008-06-30 22:37:55

Does this help? http://omploader.org/va3Nz

toofishes · 2008-07-01 16:35:14

I'll throw out my own pretty graphics:
http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/archgrowth.png

phrakture · 2008-07-01 17:36:08

toofishes wrote:

I'll throw out my own pretty graphics:
http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/archgrowth.png

How often do you generate that? I thought it was a one-time graph, so I never looked at it after you showed it to me...

toofishes · 2008-07-01 21:01:17

phrakture wrote:

toofishes wrote:
I'll throw out my own pretty graphics:
http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/archgrowth.png
How often do you generate that? I thought it was a one-time graph, so I never looked at it after you showed it to me...

Every so often when I get bored. Looks like I could get the June stats in there sometime as it is a new month.

vennen · 2008-07-06 10:43:00

I've noticed Arch got up 2 places in Distrowatch.com list this week.

Allan · 2008-07-06 10:56:33

Yeah, a new release will do that to you... I saw it hit #11 on the "Last 7 days" option.

tlaloc · 2008-07-06 11:41:05

Toofishes: That's great! I have talked about such a graph to some people in the past - I thought about using a wayback machine and counting it out manually - obviously, this is not necessary. Registered users may indeed be the most reliable sign of growing popularity (not in absolute numbers, but in relative ways). Moreover, it never occured to me that flyspray is a good indicator of dev activities.

So, some suggestions:
1) Would you mind to include the more active local language communities (e.g. fr, de, es). I think there were two french communities in the past, so this may be a source of error - don't think that this is relevant nowadays, however. Activity there would probably show the same pattern.

2) The graph gets too complex and should be split up into several diagramms.

3) Bare numbers tell us very little, so we would need a kind of small interpretative essay on this. I know that I should have written one in before - but hey, that's your work; and your decision on how to proceed. Count me in for help if you want to go along this line.

4) Send it to kensai - would make up for a good history lesson, right?

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