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    02 years ago

    those numbers are nonexistent for most distribution, since forcing telemetry isn’t really a cool move in the free software world

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      02 years ago

      The number of IPs hitting their software repos can be a decent way of estimating active users. Also, ISO downloads and so on.

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        There’s also the check connectivity to Internet ping that network manager does. Arch Linux defaults to Arch’s servers, etc.