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Bazzite has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

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[–] [S] 20 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

fedora distros have a thing called countme that pings their servers so they can measure general trends in how many people are using the OS and the various spins, which can be helpful for determining what to focus on. some amount of the userbase opt out of it

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And this is on by default?

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    It is on by default, but can be disabled in your repo config: https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html

    The feature works by adding a flag to one random http request to a fedora repo every week. Fedora then aggregates the http logs that have been flagged to derive their metrics. You can opt out of sending the flag, but if you're querying fedora repos then you still end up in their http log.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It appears as though it is...

    But saying it pings their servers isn't quite a fair statement as it's not some background service that opens a network connection, it sounds to me at least like it's data that is sent to the Fedora repos once a week when you update your system?

    Clients (DNF, PackageKit, …) have been modified so they add a countme variable in their requests to mirrors.fedoraproject.org once a week. This ends up in our webserver log data which lets us generate usage statistics.

    Would be glad to be corrected on this though as I am a long time Fedora user now and I'm not overly fond of my data being collected by big corpo; it's why I left Windows in the first place 🙄

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago*

    I feel like people lately go a bit overboard when it's about protecting their "data".

    As far as I see all it does is just send one single number that shows that there is someone using this specific operation system and it does not include any personal or unique to the user information.

    In my opinion this does not even qualify as "my data"

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I mean fedora is pretty famous for data gathering in the Linux space. It's kinda what they do. They have ended up in rather sizeable kerfuffles over it.

    Fedora is after all one of the two /corpo/ option of the Linux world right next to Ubuntu.

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