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 it reveals quite a bit information about installations, including computer details, languages used, country of installation and 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 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 by using the time zone and location options in the installer instead of an identifiable IP address. Surprisingly, ubuntu was widely used 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. On physical devices, the software BIOS was more popular than UEFI, but by almost 50% each. The most popular analysisscreen 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 how much storage users had on their computers. He found that the discs under 500GB (79%) were the most common, while drives up to 2TB made up 13%. Only 7% of drives had more than 2 TB of storage.
If you want to see Canonical's detailed statistics, go to on this page to learn more.
