Η Canonical published the statistics of the users gathered during the first six months of the release of the operating Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
The data was released yesterday after the release of Ubuntu 18.10 and revealed enough information about the facilities, including details of the computer, the languages used, the country of installation and much more.
With the launch of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Canonical began collecting information from users who decided to join. According to the company, 66% of users gave their approval for it collection of information. 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 by using the time zone and location options in the installer instead of an identifiable IP address. 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 version Amd64 of Ubuntu was the most widely installed, accounting for 98% of all installations. In physical devices, BIOS software was more popular than UEFI, but by almost 50% each. The most popular analysis screen 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 the statistics in depth data compiled by Canonical, go to on this page to learn more.
