Canonical publishes the data collected with ubuntu

Canonical has released information on user statistics that it collected during the first six months of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS life cycle. The page was published yesterday, and reveals a lot of information about the facilities, including the details of the equipment, the languages ​​used, the country of the installation and much more.

Canonical opens a page with the statistics collected with Ubuntu

According to Canonical, clean installations constituted 80% of the total installations, while updates represented 20%. The company also derived the location of Ubuntu users using the time zone and location options in the installer, rather than an identifiable IP address. Some of the countries where Ubuntu was used the most were Mexico, Brazil, Angola, Egypt, Afghanistan, South Korea and Australia. They also found that English was the most popular language with 59%.

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The amd64 version of Ubuntu is the most installed, with 98% of all installations. On physical devices, it also revealed that BIOS firmware is more popular than UEFI, but they are almost 50% each. The most popular resolution was 1920 × 1080 (28%), followed by 1366 × 768 (25%) and 800 × 600 (11%). As expected, 51% of users have between 1 and 4 GB of RAM, while 31% have between 5 and 8, 13% have 12-24% and only 2% have more than 32 GB. Machines with 1-3 cores (63%) were more popular than those with 4-6 cores (27%), and only 8% have 7 or more cores.

Canonical was even able to determine how much storage space users had. It found that disks less than 500GB (79%) are the most used, and disks less than 2TB accounted for 13%. Only 7% of the disks had more than 2TB of storage.