Canonical has published user statistics collected during the first six months of running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
The data was published yesterday, after the release of Ubuntu 18.10, and reveals quite a bit of information about installations, including details of the computer, languages used, country installationand many more.
With the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Canonical started collecting information from users who decided to participate. According to the company, 66% of users gave their approval for information collection. The company found that clean installations made up 80% of total installations, while upgrades made up 20%. The company also obtained the location of Ubuntu users using the time zone and location options in the program installation instead of a recognizable one address IP. Surprisingly ubuntu was used heavily in Mexico, Brazil, Angola, Egypt, Afghanistan, South Korea and Australia. They found that English was the most popular language at 59%.
They found that the Amd64 version of Ubuntu was the most widely installed, accounting for 98% of all installations. In physical devices, BIOS software was more popular than UEFI, but with ratio nearly 50% each. The most popular screen resolution was 1920×1080 (28%), followed by 1366×768 (25%) and 800×600 (11%).
It's not surprising that 51% of users have between 1-4 GB of RAM while 31% has between 5-8 GB, 13% has 12-24 GB, and 2% has 32 + GB. Machines with 1 to 3 processors (63%) were more popular than 4-6 processors (27%) and only 8% had 7 or more processors.
Canonical was still able to determine the size of the storage space that users had on their computers. He found that the discs under 500 GB (79%) were the most crowded, while the discs up to 2 TB were 13%. Only 7% of discs had more than 2 TB storage.
If you want to see Canonical's detailed statistics, go to on this page to learn more.
